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Science, Research, and Social Work: Who Controls the Profession?
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This paper argued that the qualitative research that did exist was relegated to the status of philosophy and summarily dismissed as "opinion" or social critique, and that social criticism both within and outside of social work was ignored.Abstract:
precisely from "hard data," rather than merely relying on the "soft ab stractions" of history, philosophy, and social theory. Throughout this period, qualitative research appeared to be in relative re treat. The qualitative research that did exist was relegated to the status of philosophy and summarily dismissed as "opinion" or social critique. In creasingly, social criticism both within and outside of social work wasread more
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Research using qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods and choice based on the research.
Kevin McCusker,Serdar Günaydin +1 more
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Evidence-based social work practice: Challenges and promise
TL;DR: Tanenbaum as mentioned in this paper discusses three obstacles that challenge implementation of EBP in routine practice: (1) the uncritical transfer and use of lay decision heuristics, (2) espousal of epistemologies that are inhospitable to EBP, and (3) the dilemma that is inherent in idiographic application of empirical generalizations.
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The new epistemology and the milan approach: feminist and sociopolitical consdderations†
Laurie Mackinnon,Dusty Miller +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the sociopolitical implications of the new epistemology and the Milan approach, concluding that, while second order cybernetics has greater potential to incorporate a radical social analysis, it has, nevertheless, failed to do so.
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Chinese corpus, western application: The Chinese strategy of engagement with western social work discourse
A. Ka Tat Tsang,Miu-Chung Yan +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored major current debates on ideology, teleology, epistemology and technology within the social work profession in the West and their implications for social work development in China, and found that Chinese social work scholars have adopted the century-old conceptual formulation of "Chinese corpus, western application" to balance the need for western knowledge and the need to intellectual autonomy.
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The Challenge of Social Work in Africa: Starting the Indigenisation Process
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Research in Social Work
William J. Reid,Audrey D. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the design and development of research problems in social work and propose guidelines for preparing a research report and guidelines for evaluating the results of such a report at different levels of practice.
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The Obsolete Scientific Imperative in Social Work Research
TL;DR: The assumptions and postulates of this prevailing "scientific" model of research and evaluation are examined; their roots in the logical empiricist tradition are described; criticisms of these assumptions are discussed; and alternative, less restrictive approaches to research are suggested.
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Knowledge for Practice
Martin Rein,Sheldon H. White +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the knowledge-into-skills story fully explains social work practices and that practice is often ineffective and tends to throw social workers into moral quandaries, leaving them to practice in a context of faith and doubt.
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Do Social Workers Understand Research
Stuart A. Kirk,Joel Fischer +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reported the results of a survey experiment in which a national sample of NASW members were presented with systematically altered versions of a summary of a hypothetical study of casework effectiveness and asked to make judgments about the quality of the research, its importance to social work, and its significance for their own practice.