Abstract
The study selected 69 issues of the journals Revista Katálysis and Serviço Social & Sociedade to analyze how the category of alienation was used in the articles published. The research identified the authors and theoretical works that supported the use of alienation, and the most significant ways it was represented were classified based on four central aspects: politics, work, subjectivity, and methodology. The results showed the prominence of authors of Marxist tradition. These authors, however, did not agree on a univocal basis for the category of alienation. The broad bibliographic and heuristic scope pointed to uses related to colloquialism and to concise disregard of categorical precision.
Keywords:
Alienation; Brazilian Social Work; Marxism; Labor; Subjectivity