Research in Social Work: Conceptions and criticisms

Abstract

This article problematizes the concepts and meanings of academic-scientific research and research in services or associated to professional work. Its relevance is inherent to the fact that current research for Brazilian social work is understood as a professional attribution that is expressed in education and work. The methodology uses an exploratory study and works with bibliographic analysis based on locating, compiling and summarizing materials organized in the two lines of the study: research and production of knowledge in the field of social work; research and professional work. Results point to the reduction of academic research, activities of systematization and the need to expand discussions about research to undergraduate studies in social work to allow breaking the marks of academicism and “unidisciplinarity”.