Since the 1980s, the diffusion of Antonio Gramsci s thought in the production of the Brazilian Social Work is notorious. His influence intensified both the process of breaking with traditionalism and the construction of a professional project committed to the social struggles necessary to overcome capitalist sociability. Gramsci is responsible for giving new meaning to the concept of State and civil society, recreating a concept that encompasses the combination of political society and civil society, and which encompasses both dimensions, in permanent interaction and interconnection. This study, based on documentary and bibliographic research, based on the Gramscian theoretical framework, analyzes the uses and appropriations of the concept of Integral State in the recent production of the Brazilian Social Work. In this sense, and from the collected data, it was possible to verify that the Social Work has similar production to the History area and only loses in the number of theses and dissertations produced by the Education area. For this purpose, fourteen theses available in the digital repositories of the Brazilian Social Work graduate programs were selected, evaluated with a grade from 4 by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes) of the Ministry of Education. The theses located and later selected were produced between the years 2006 to 2016, exclusively by social workers who used the category Integral State as the main theoretical framework and/or guide of the study carried out. We sought to understand how and which readings of Gramsci were carried out and to what extent these productions still conserve or transcend the discussions that marked the reception of Gramsci in Brazil, and specifically in Social Work, since the 1980s, a period constituted by significant formulations by authors who make up professional historiography and who sought paths in Gramsci s thought to think about Social Work and the work of social workers. It was possible to verify that the analyzed theses, to a greater or lesser degree, constitute productions that transcend the context of Italian origin and make it possible, through the use of the concept of Integral State, to problematize both the national reality and the particularities of the Brazilian Social Work. Evidencing elements that fostered a critical view of the profession and, consequently, the strengthening of the constitution of the professional ethical-political project. In this way, Gramsci s encounter with contexts and cultures different from those of his origin made possible not only the task of translating Marxism through the periphery, but also the creation of new political projects to labor regulations and the professional project of the Brazilian Social Work.