Social Work Research and Statistics

Social work is all about determining peoples social economic and emotional problems. Social work offers diverse opportunities because every individual and society deal with different kinds of problems. Social research can serve a variety of purposes. Three of the most influential and common purposes of research are exploration description and explanation. Exploration involves familiarizing a researcher with a topic. Exploration satisfies the researchers curiosity and desire for improved understanding. Description involves describing situations and events through scientific observation. Scientific descriptions are typically more accurate and precise than causal ones. Social scientists are divided into camps of support for particular research techniques. These disputes relate to the historical core of social theory positivism and antipositivism structure and agency. This book re examines the concept of social work research and statistics in the Indian and abroad context and attempts to integrate participatory and rights based concerns with social work statistics and research.