SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - The Dilemma, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Caving

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: Scott Schau

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Introduction: ethics include the concerns, dilemmas, and conflicts that arise over the proper way to conduct research. Ethics help define what is or is not legitimate to do, or what moral research procedure involves. Ethical issues ask you to balance two values: 2)the rights of research participants or of others in society. Researchers are constantly confronted with ethical dilemmas and must decide how to act. Ultimately, ethical research depends on the integrity of an individual researcher. Ethical research will take longer to complete, cost more money, be more complicated, and be less likely to produce unambiguous results. If one were to act unethically odds of getting caught would be very small and written ethical standards are in the form of vague, loose principles. Scientific misconduct: is an opposed type of unethical behavior. This occurs when a researcher falsifies or distorts the data or the methods of data collection, or plagiarizes the work of others.