Context, criticism and intentionality in social action: a proposal to understand social work
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Abstract
This proposal understands social work, both at researching and intervention levels, as a way of building knowledge and addressing professional action in social processes. Here three elements are highlighted: context, criticism and intentionality. Only when those three concepts are taken into account, we can have a better understanding about what social work should be.
Keywords:
Social work, epistemology, comprehensive theories, social research.