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Ethics and Politics of Social Research
Mary Cassatt: Breakfast in Bed, 1894.
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Ethical Issues in Social Research
1. Voluntary Participation
• Subjects must agree to reveal information about themselves.
• Subjects must be able to provide informed consent.
• Behavior observed in public settings is assumed to imply agreement to being observed.
• Subjects contacted after being observed in a public setting must be informed they were observed in a public setting.
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Ethical Issues in Social Research
2. No Harm to Subjects
• Subjects must be free from reasonably anticipated physical or emotional harm.
• Subjects must be informed of the manifest content of the information they will be asked to reveal about themselves.
• It is permissible to deceive subjects, as long as the deception cannot be anticipated to create physical or emotional harm.
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Ethical Issues in Social Research
3. Anonymity
• Both the researcher and the public cannot identify the subject.
• Anonymity often is not required during data collection, but sometimes is preferred.• The “double-blind” experiment.
• Typically, identifiers must be removed from the data after collection is complete.• The exception would be for longitudinal
data collection.
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Ethical Issues in Social Research
4. Confidentiality
• The public cannot identify the subject.• Confidentiality nearly always is required.• Social scientists are mandatory reporters of
child abuse and capital crimes.• A Federal Certificate of Confidentiality can help
protect researchers from revealing the identity of subjects involved in criminal activities, except capital crimes.
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Ethical Issues in Social Research
5. Deception: Identity of Researcher to Subjects• Sometimes, it can be important for researchers
to conceal their identity to subjects.• This type of deception can raise serious
concerns about informed consent.6. Deception: Identity of Research Purpose
• It is common in laboratory experiments to reveal the full nature of the research purpose.
• Debriefing involves informing subjects of full research purpose after data collection is completed.
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Ethical Issues in Social Research
7. Institutional Review Boards• “Human Subject Committees” decide if
research is ethical.• Ethics is an evolving issue.• Learn more and take the test! Click here:
Guidelines for Human Subjects Research
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Ethical Issues in Social Research
8. Required Elements for Consent• Purpose of study.• How respondent was selected.• Results will be used for research and [other].• Voluntary participation in the study or any part
of it.• Respondent can keep any incentives if they
withdraw from the study.• Confidentiality of responses.• Contact information of the researcher.
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Ethical Issues in Social Research
9. Professional Ethics9. Reporting of findings.10.Credit for findings.11.Plagiarism.
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The Politics of Social Research
1. Objectivity and Ideology• Verstehen: Value-free scientific inquiry.• Research and bias.
• Racial, gender, political, religious.• The expert witness.
2. The Sociologist as Person• Basic research, applied research, and
advocacy.