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O*NET detailed work activityConduct research on social issues
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AI can get you up to speed fast and suggest where to look, but you need to confirm findings against real sources, records or people.
Part of Research historical or social issues, under the O*NET work activity group Getting Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (1 AI-ready, 12 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Plan and conduct research to develop and test theories about societal issues such as crime, group relations, poverty, and aging.
- Interpret and analyze policies, public issues, legislation, or the operations of governments, businesses, and organizations.
- Analyze data from surveys, old records, or case studies, using statistical software.
- Study the socioeconomic impacts of new public policies, such as proposed legislation, taxes, services, and regulations.
- Increase social work knowledge by reviewing current literature, conducting social research, or attending seminars, training workshops, or classes.
- Perform descriptive and multivariate statistical analyses of data, using computer software.
- Develop approaches to the solution of groups' problems, based on research findings in sociology and related disciplines.
- Examine societal issues and their relationship with both technical systems and the environment.
- Identify culturally specific beliefs and practices affecting health status and access to services for distinct populations and communities, in collaboration with medical and public health officials.
- Direct or conduct studies or research on issues affecting areas of responsibility.
- Conduct social research to advance knowledge in the social work field.
- Conduct social research.