SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nuremberg Code, Hertz, Eth
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Lecture 3 the ethics of social science research. Learning outcomes: explain the role of ethics reviews in research, apply the research cycle. Stanford university students some acting as prisoners and some acting as officers for 2 weeks. Students acting as guards became so involved in their roles causing harm on prisoners. The basic idea: pursuit of knowledge although we want to know things we need to balance this pursuit with the rights of participants. Avoiding of any experiment where death or injury is likely. Termination of research if it will cause harm. Preventing unethical research: universities have ethics review boards, group vulnerability age (especially involving children) September 22, 2015 issue with mental health and age = the ability to give consent sexual minorities victims: research risk deception risk of violence/harm how personal information is being handled (ex. Humphreys following subjects) asking subjects to recall traumatic experience causing distress. Voluntary and informed consent: voluntary: no coercion to receive participants consent o.
