Response to Dr. Levin.

The article presents response to Arnold M. Levin, a famous sociologist regarding his view on social sciences by Barbara K. Shore, a social thinker. Shore states that she found Levin's paper interesting and thoughtful. Her disagreements are in the areas covered in her opinion piece. She focused on the issue of freestanding programs, which are non-university based and not based in a social work program. She understood that this was the issue to be addressed. The idea of having a clinical track in doctoral programs in schools of social work has some interesting issues connected to it, in terms of how this is done, what is the relation- ship of the clinical emphasis to the other aspects of doctoral education, specifically the research emphasis and the connection to policy issues and the social context within which practice should be carried out. Apart from some diversity she concurs with Levin that they must think seriously this issue and she endorsed his notion of some study process to examine this issue and to see what options are possible that respect the integrity of clinical social work, as part of the social work profession and that also preserve the integrity of doctoral education.