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Reflect a bit more on the question of how we know what we know about human behavior?

For example in the realm of mass media,

Lets say you read a newspaper article a statistic of human behavior (e.g. "72% of students in one school had ADD" OR "43% of women have a female sexual dysfunction" OR "Men respond to XX intervention 10 times better than women" OR "The best intervention to get children to eat vegetables is..." OR any other real statistic that your read in media), what do you need to know more about to judge whether the information from this study of human behavior should be considered knowledge worth applying?

Or in the realm of higher education.

We teach you theories of human behavior, but what should be considered about whether this is knowledge worth applying? What do you want to know about how these theories were determined?

Or any other realm of knowledge. Reflect on what part of this knowledge formation you would want to question.

Word Count: 300 words minimum, no maximum

# of Citations Needed: minimum of 2 from this week's readings.


  • Schriver, J. (2015). Paradigms and Social Work. In Schriver (Ed). Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice. Pearson.

    • Chapter 1 (HBSE and paradigms)

    • Chapter 2 (Traditional and alternative paradigms).

  • Ungar, M. (2002). A deeper, more social ecological social work practice. Social Service Review, 76 (3), 480-497 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..