Chapter 5: Theory and Paradigm
Chapter Outline
- Assumptions underlying research (16 minute read)
- Ethical and critical considerations (15 minute read)
- Social work research paradigms (25 minute read, plus 10 minute video)
- Using theory in research design (XX read)
- Developing a theoretical framework (15 minute read)
- Designing your project using theory and paradigm (13 minute read)
Content warning: examples in this chapter contain references to post-traumatic stress disorder and similar culture-bound syndromes related to trauma, colonization and Global North/West hegemony, racist beliefs about intelligence and racist science, sexism in medical science and STEM fields, dropping out of high school, poverty, addiction and the disease model, police violence and systemic racism, rape culture, depression, homelessness, homophobia, ethnocentrism, sexual harassment, domestic violence, and oppression of TANF recipients.