The article addresses the investigative attitude in the social worker's job - SW. To do so, it deals with the parts of the SW's job, by providing visibility to their competencies and specificities. Next, it discusses the investigative attitude in the professional activity. After, it shows that, in addition to the articulation between investigation/action in the daily work, it becomes fundamental an interdisciplinary attitude. Finally, it suggests the SW's job to be involved in an equation of pragmatism - investigative attitude, mediated by intervention, that only gets to social reach when it's guided by interdisciplinarity.
Investigative attitude; Research; Intervention; Interdisciplinarity
