Social Work Research as Knowledge/Power in Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2643138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather D''Cruz, Heather D'Cruz, Heather D’Cruz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-19 |
| Publication date | 2000-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.421 |
| OpenAlex | W2106866453 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 27 |
Traditionally, social research is represented as a neutral (objective) search for knowledge as an entity, for which claims of 'reliability', 'validity' and 'credibility' may be made if the researcher follows prescribed techniques of inquiry. From this perspective, techniques of inquiry may cause harm to informants who are subjected to the process of inquiry. Therefore, ethical research is about the legal and moral protection of subjects from the researcher's techniques of inquiry. The research relationship is constituted as one between 'powerful researcher' and 'powerless researched'. Alternative views which foreground the researcher (and informants') subjectivities as positioned sites of power challenge the unitary identities of 'more powerful researcher' and 'less powerful researched'. In this paper I show through reflection on my PhD research, how the identities of 'researcher' and 'researched' are fluid, dynamic relations of power, by which 'knowledge' is achieved through processes of negotiation and access to 'sites of knowledge/power'. From this perspective, knowledge is not an entity for which definitive claims of 'reliability', 'validity' and 'credibility' can be made. Nor are 'research ethics' simply the responsibility of the researcher but instead are complex and shifting micropractices of power/knowledge between 'researcher' and 'researched
Credibility · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Harm · Negotiation · Research ethics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
Practice research
Critically Reflecting on the Australian Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics
Irish Social Workers in Britain and the Politics of (Mis) Recognition
Working with ‘Diverse Bodies, Diverse Identities’
Building Bridges’
Reflections on Reflexivity and Critical Reflection as Critical Research Practices
Should there be international standards for qualitative social work research? A commentary on utility, contradictions, and reframing to principles
Constructing the Identities of 'Responsible Mothers, Invisible Men' in Child Protection Practice
Reflections on research
Gender performance in qualitative studies of masculinities
Tracing Three Decades of Sociological Research
Researching Hard-to Reach Populations
Interviewer and Interviewee Relationships Between Women
Handbook of qualitative research
In the Field
Epistemological and methodological bases of naturalistic inquiry
Field research
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Ideology and Consciousness
Black, White or Mixed Race
Re-thinking Social Research
Introduction To Social Research
Michel Foucault
The Active Interview
White Women, Race Matters
The Logic of Practice
Pathologist as Gatekeeper
Quantity and Quality in Social Research
The Origin, Emergence, and Professional Recognition of Child Protection
Meaning Construction and Social Work Practice
Breaking Out Again
The Ethnographic Imagination
Discipline and Punish
The Concept of 'Difference
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences
The Social Construction of Documentary Reality1
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |