SOAN 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stanford Prison Experiment, Laud Humphreys

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3070
• Professor: Katie Mac Donald

Document Summary

Ethical research: research is vital to enhance and expand our understanding, social research is based off of the tri-council policy statement: ethical conduct for research involving humans, core principles. Tri-council policy statement: ethical conduct for research involving humans core principles: respect for persons = moral obligation to respect autonomy; this is done by asking for informed consent. Unable to provide consent-coercion barriers to understanding (illness, health age etc. : concerns for welfare = quality of life; impact on physical, mental and spiritual health, privacy on material. Justice = treat people fairly and equitably; special consideration for vulnerable populations. Unethical research: tends to be more a case of lack of awareness, a missed step, or misrepresentation of process and data, than an intention to conduct unethical research, scientific misconduct = falsify or distorts data/methods. Plagiarism = using the ideas /words of somebody else without citing their work. Physical harm = no injury from participation. Psychological abuse = stressful, embarrassing, anxiety-producing, unpleasant situations.