The Production of Knowledge About Social Policy in the Area of Social Service: From Modernity and the Emersion of Post-Modernity

This article presents as an object of study the production of knowledge about Social Policy in the area of Social Service inserted in the context of the crisis of latebourgeois society that reflects on the criticism of the societal project of the Modernity Program from the postmodern offensive.This is a bibliographic and documentary research, whose investigative material analyzed 53 Master's Dissertations defended in the Postgraduation Program in Social Service at the ``Universidade Federal da Paraíba``, in the period from 2010 to 2014.The discussion of the results highlighted the significant prevalence of intellectual maturity of the area of Social Service, through the theoretical consolidation of a Marxist critical basis on Social Policy, even with the limits and challenges imposed on modern thinking by postmodern criticism.