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Based on a political sociology analysis of power relations, the aim is to identify a research and training methodology to support a posture consistent with the values and history of social work professions in the field of professional practices. The author postulates that climate change and the narratives of the Anthropocene are a reformulation of the paradoxes of social work between normativity and emancipation. He suggests taking a pragmatist stance that takes seriously emancipatory professional practices in their relationship to the environment, between the social and the living, the human and the non-human, to promote a practice of sobriety. It thus leads to the social, which contains an ecological substance that can be included in the challenges of the ecological transition.