SOWK 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnography, Grounded Theory, Nuremberg Code

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOWK 2501
• Professor: Kehoe Mcleod Krystal

Document Summary

Ethics: a moral custom that is used to identify a set of principles around what is right or wrong. Ethical issues: concerns, dilemmas and conflicts that arise over the proper way to conduct research. Guidelines to be followed by the researcher to ensure that the interests of human participants are protected. Nuremberg code: developed because of the nazi germany and how they did research on concentration camp prisoners. It basically states that you can"t do research on someone unless they consented to participate. Milgram study: the experiment was made to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural african-american men in alabama, their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The theory being that whites experienced more neurological complications from syphilis whereas blacks were more susceptible to cardiovascular damage. cooperation: one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by.