| Abstract: | By reviewing the history of social work, it shows a clear picture that both clinical social work and community work are "made out of" doing. This article, based on this essential attribute of social work, proposes that the cycle of action research as the course of combining theory and practice of social work by three reasons. First of all, the ethos of community practice is not only the starting point of social work practice and the action research, but also the drive for continue doing professional practice and action research. Secondly, sociological imagination is the ability produced in practice through rationality, including activities to change the reality. Thirdly, the unity knowledge of knowing and doing is not a single cycle from sense to sensibility, but an endless cycle of both. After more than 10 years of practicing in rural development and anti-poverty social work practices, the author argues that the concept of sociological imagination proposed by C. Wright Mills is not only a critical perspective about how personal life in relation to the society we live in, but also a possible solution for our daily life. |
