Reflexión acerca del vínculo entre teoría y práctica en Trabajo Social

Abstract

Taking as an example the dimension of “applied social science” that Social Work has, we will be able to evaluate the need to strengthen, debate and disseminate the link that exists with “basic social science”. In “basic social science”, it is from where the fundamental concepts and theories that accompany us as instruments of justification and as part of the guide that we require to do our work arise. We must generate such justification from the basic concepts and theories that give validity as an argument to the statements that arise from a recursive heuristic between both contexts. With this, we will be in a position to enrich the necessary reflection that allows us to optimize the results we obtain for the “intervention context”. This is fundamental when we are in an environment where we transmit the strategies, forms, methodologies and validation “mechanisms” to students who learn and who sooner or later will be in a position to replicate said learning in a community. In the framework of social studies of science and using some basic principles of what is known as “sociology of knowledge”, we start in this review of some topics that need to be strengthened from their visibility so that with the debate that could produce our professional practice is enriched.