SSH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Clandestine Human Intelligence, Milgram Experiment

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 301
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

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When looking for ethical guidance, researchers are not alone: professional colleagues, ethical advisory committees, ethics review boards within institutions, codes of ethics by professional associations (e. g. canadian sociological association, writings on ethics in research. Medical personnel experiment on a prisoner at the buchenwald concentration camp. Negative impact on careers, reputations or incomes of participants: e. g. survey of employees and conclude that the supervisor"s performance is poor, e. g. homelessness and discover that many engage in petty illegal acts to. Informed consent get food: social researchers follow the ethical principle of voluntary consent, read and sign a statement giving informed consent, deception: is deception ever acceptable, obtaining written consent can actually work to discourage participants from participating e. g. Robson study on informal money transfer systems among the. Chinese community in canada : special populations (children, prisoners, students, privacy: intimate private details are known, anonymity: research participants remain anonymous or nameless, confidentiality e. g.