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Social Work in Puerto Rico has the challenge of strengthening the debate between its philosophical, theoretical and historical basis. It can be acknowledge in nowadays debate of Social Work that there is a constant academic-professional discussion about the basis between praxis and investigation. In this article we make an all around examination of works that represent an invariable volume of findings that offer an historic course to our occupation. In the analysis we used the critical perspective, which for Marx is not a rejection of previous knowledge but an improvement by means of a more profound knowledge.