Assistentes Sociais e Profissões Sociais em Portugal: Notas sobre um itinerário de pesquisa

This article has two main aims. The first one is to essay to realise an explanatory analysis on the state of the jurisdiction of the Social Work as profession in Portugal in an analytical itinerary guided by the sociology of the professions.
The second one is to present, in introductory terms, the analytical perspective that comes being supported, in a different way that the American tradition of the sociology of the professions, of the necessity of a new perspective on the professions of the social field as requisite for apprehending the dynamic and mutations that in this scope they come occurring in the context of the transformations of the Welfare State and the public policies facing the «new social question»