POLSCI 3N06 Lecture Notes - Syphilis, Stanford Prison Experiment, Harm Principle
23 Nov 2013
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Political science 3n06 2013 lecture 4a: research ethics. You cannot conduct original social scientific research without an appreciation of the ethical dilemmas that are inherent to any study of human society. Our discipline is governed by a set of general ethical principles that should guide your research always clear cut. There are occasions when our ethical obligations and the law might conflict: the law might say do some specific things, where the ethics will say otherwise; This raises questions about who is making these decisions and on what basis. Milgram"s study of obedience: human behaviour, paid volunteers, learning experiment, what is the effect of punishment on learning, two volunteers teacher & learner. Teacher asks question to the learner over the microphone; if answer incorrectly receive an electrical shock; Political science 3n06: experiment on the teacher" the student was never hooked to electrical sources; it was meant to examine the effects of authority .
