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ABSTRACT
Through this research, we explore the logic to the basis of the genesis and the evolution
of the social work in Haiti. Indeed, the analysis of the results of this study, which raises
the question of the social conditions of the emergence of social work in Haiti as well as
its evolution, by mobilizing a set of documentary data and interviews data (n = 9),
suggests that development, as a worldview inctarnated both as an institution and in the
form of mental structures, is the opus operantum at the foundation of the genesis of the
social work in Haiti as well as its evolution.
Keywords: Haiti, social work, State, development, habitus, symbolic violence