Response: Reviewing the Coming Crisis in Social Work--A Response to Longhofer and Floersch

Autor/in	Houston, Stan
Titel	Response: Reviewing the Coming Crisis in Social Work--A Response to Longhofer and Floersch
Quelle	In: Research on Social Work Practice, 22 (2012) 5, S.520-522 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1049-7315
DOI	10.1177/1049731512441264
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Theory Practice Relationship; Social Theories; Social Work; Neoliberalism; Research Methodology; Realism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Gesellschaftstheorie; Soziale Arbeit; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Realismus
Abstract	This response recasts the issues highlighted by Longhofer and Floersch in terms of the continuing dynamics of the neoliberal knowledge economy, how this impacts on what is researched by the social work academy, how it is researched, and what type of research is recognized. While Longhofer and Floersch's turn to critical realism is welcomed, this underlaboring position must be focused on the mechanisms driving neoliberalism in the modern world, primarily those associated with the commodification of social work practice and services. In order to more fully understand the nature and impact of these mechanisms, this response valorizes the continuing significance of critical social theory as expressed by theorists in the Frankfurt School. Because of the complexity of oppression under neoliberalism, it is finally argued that critical realist approaches in social work need to use a diversity of methods embracing deduction, induction, abduction, and retroduction. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10