SOWK 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Postpositivism, Deductive Reasoning, Marxist Feminism
20 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Sowk 2501- intro to research methods in social work. Research: collect data to prove that we are making a difference; to show that what you"re doing works and to get funding. Accountability organizations (guidelines and policies for workers): canadian association for. Social work education & canadian association of social workers. Creator (hired by agencies/ producing research) and disseminator (talking about research) of knowledge. Contributing partner (help researchers do the research- access to data) Tradition (passed down through culture, religion, family etc. ) System of knowledge that guides how we think and act. Frameworks (how we think and act); normative (how you should think and act) & imbedded in the socialization of adherents and practitioners (ingrained in how you were raised that you don"t realize you are imbedded) Pre-positivism: roman empire to the renaissance; catholic church was chief source of knowledge. Passive observations of natural phenomena (didn"t go to do experiments, but rather watch and observe things).
