William J. Reid: An Appreciation

Remembers Reid, who contributed five decades to social work research. His task-centered practice is seen to underpin three clusters of concerns that embodied the core of his endeavors in outcome research & review: evaluative research, model development, & application of epistemology & methodology to social work. His philosophical commitments & stance on qualitative methods are articulated, asserting that he viewed the link between paradigms & methods as an empirical question. Some unresolved tensions in his work centering on gradualism & provincialism or, as Howard Becker (1970) calls it, sentimentality, are noted. 24 References. J. Zendejas