Lavorare sui casi o sulla società?

[Autom. eng. transl.] The article proposes an acute and very current analysis of the ambivalence of social work, which seems to lead operators to "divide" between the responsibility to respond immediately to the problems that people manifest and the function of intervention on structural causes, which they seem to underlie these same problems in society. Starting from an examination of the relationship between social work and sociology, the article describes how operators run the risk of feeling trapped in a sort of Penelope canvas, which sees them engaged in "building" by day, while at night society undo what they have produced. The author argues that this ambivalence, in reality, is only apparent and how the two "souls" of social work can be reunited in a united action.