Abstract

ACUNA-PINILLA, Wendy Lorena; RAMIREZ-PATARROYO, María Valentina  and  JIMENEZ-PINZON, Andrea Mireya. The Production of Knowledge in Social Work from the Perspective of Gender. Prospectiva [online]. 2019, n.28, pp.41-67. ISSN 0122-1213.  https://doi.org/10.25100/prts.v0i28.6740.

This article presents the results of the research study titled La producción de conocimiento en Trabajo Social, desde la perspectiva de género undertaken in Colombia during 2017. As per the methodological strategy a qualitative research study with a historical-hermeneutic approach was undertaken. Data collection techniques included document review and the analysis of the content of 157 scientific articles written by professionals of the discipline in four Colombian journals of social work during the decade 2006-2016. Furthermore, four semi-structured interviews were conducted with professionals in the area.

Within the most important findings, sixteen areas of production of knowledge were identified, the majority of which were researched from an epistemological-historical-hermeneutic approach, where a solid relationship between gender and investigative activity was established. This allows us to conclude that discrimination based on gender stigmatizes female social workers and subordinates them with respect to themselves, scientific production and their fellow researchers. In this context, a strong current of standardization and cultural and political homogenization of the production of knowledge is evidenced.

Keywords : Social Work; Production of knowledge; Epistemology; Gender; Social Research.

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