SOC387H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Birds Eye View, Data Analysis, Content Analysis
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Its emotional harm because they feel agony and guilt causing others harm. 1972, phil zimbardo" prison experiment: they started believing they were prisoners and prison guards where they started to revolt, what was the harm, emotional, physical and psychological harm. Study participants have voluntarily agreed to participate. The researcher taken steps to reduce any physical, emotional and legal harm. They study participants are aware of the potential risks involved with the research. This makes it easier to manage risks and get irb approval. More involved in study deviant, hard to research populations. Must secure written consent from easily-harmed populations. Cannot always announce that they are doing observations. More difficult to predict risks and show that the researcher"s presence will not increase or cause risk. This all makes it harder to get irb approval. Requires a signing and dating of a the consent form. However, this limits participation of people who are required to reveal sensitive or criminal information.
