Empiricists versus Social Constructionists: Time for a Cease-Fire

Abstract

The controversy between two sets of social work researchers and theorists has the potential to split the profession into warring camps. Both sides have cloaked their arguments in philosophical constructs that may not be familiar to practitioners. This article translates the discussion into straightforward language and suggests that the advocates of the “pure” science approach have the weaker position because they have made a pseudoreligion out of science.