SOCI 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Informed Consent, Whistleblower, Psychological Abuse
6 Nov 2018
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Ethical issues: voluntary participation, informed consent, risk of harm, confidentiality, anonymity, right to service, sponsored research. Confidentiality: participant assured that identifying information will not be made available to anyone not directly involved with the study. Anonymity: the participant will remain anonymous throughout the study even to the researchers themselves. Informed consent: prospective research participants must be fully informed about procedures and any risks involved in the research and must give their consent to participate. Key points - introduction to chapter: scientific misconduct, research fraud, unethical but legal, ethics and research participants. Harm: physical harm, psychological abuse, legal harm, other harm to participants. Ethical controversies: milgram"s obedience study, humphreys"s tearoom trade study, zimbardo"s prison experiment, tuskeegee bad blood" study, kinsey studies. Deception/consent: deception, principle of voluntary consent, informed consent, covert observation. Associations have them- e. g. canadian association of sociology and anthropology.
