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The Politics of Social Research: A Social Research Strategy for the Community Health, Education and Welfare Movement
Author(s) -
Wadsworth Yoland
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1982.tb00738.x
Subject(s) - neglect , politics , project commissioning , welfare , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , sociology , public relations , social welfare , publishing , biology and political orientation , social science , political science , medicine , law , nursing , paleontology , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
The experience of the author led to a consideration of the political nature of social policy oriented research, with a view to developing a strategy which might overcome some of the dissatisfactions experienced with traditional research approaches. Traditional approaches, largely because of their technical nature, have meant a neglect or diminution of those precise characteristics which have characterized the ‘community’ orientation among health and welfare workers. There is a clear need for a research strategy which reflects these characteristics. Such a strategy is proposed. A brief historical perspective is also included to give a context in which such research styles have operated over the past ten years in Australia.