SOCI 2150Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pure Data, Deductive Reasoning, Informed Consent
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Legal obligations may not be ethical, and things that are ethical may not always be legal. It is an accountability governing board: they cannot change your proposal, they can suggest modifications which you do not have to take if you can back up why you do not want to do it. The benefits of research must outweigh the potential harm. Deception in research: can be used in certain situations, have to explain to reb why you are using the deception, have to debrief with the participants afterwards about the deception. Idiographic: studying individual causes of a particular condition or event, all of the reasons to explain one thing, ex. / all the reasons someone skipped class. Nomothetic: studying the casual factors that generally impact an event, key reasons for more than one thing, ex. / key reasons why no one showed up to class. Inductive reasoning switch this: moving from specific theory to, collect the data, find the patterns, make a theory.
