SSCI 2900- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 183 pages long!)

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The concerns, dilemmas, and conflicts that arise over the proper way to conduct research. Balance the pursuit of knowledge with the rights of research participants. Appreciate relations of power and imbalance between researcher and researched. Special populations: those who may be more susceptible to possible abuse by researchers : what groups of people may this designation include? (3, limited mental capacity, children, mentally disabled, subservient power position. Inmates (prison population: students, welfare receiving individuals, homeless individuals. Individuals who have a history of oppression and exploitation: black individuals, conditions necessary to proceed (2, get authority permission if under 18, follow ethical principles to protect participants. Famous classical experiments: milgram"s obedience experiment (1963 yale, needed volunteers to conduct the role of a teacher in which they would ask an individual a series of questions based on memory, and every time the person .