SOC200H1 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 textbook summary
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Procedures sometimes cant be used based on: being too impractical, being ethically prohibitive, being politically difficult or impossible. Problem w ethics: they"re not always self-evident: not everything black/white, shades of grey. Ethical considerations arent always apparent to us. Concern with ethical standards in research gained momentum in north america 2nd half of 20th c (medical experiments) Soc sci research can harm research subjects: eg psy harm & stress eg milgrams obedience to authority. Phy harm must also be guarded against. Researching deviant acts may result in putting subjects into legal jeopardy. Ethical codes, rebs, and the tri-council policy statement. Codes of ethics + other guidelines for moral conduct in research became prevalent in 2nd half of 20th c, to guard against harms that can come to human subjects. For every decade, has been more attention to ethical reviews of research. 90s: cdn got a national set of ethical guidelines founded for insts that get funding.
