POL 2156 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hypothesis, Content Analysis, Class Conflict

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Objectives: understand the ethical considerations for social science research, understand the elements that must be included in an informed consent form, understand the key professional ethical consideration in each step of a research project. Threats intrudes the private sphere delves into deeply personal experiences concerned with deviance and social control impinges on the exercise of coercion or domination. Legal action (referring cases to the ethics board) Information about participants must remain confidential and be kept a secret a: participants remain anonymous or nameless in reports. Restrict oneself to questions that can be justified by the theoretical underpinnings of the study. Most ethical issues arise before data analysis begins, or after it has been completed. Do not change the wording of open ended questions. Do not change phrases in an interview. Interviewees can review their quotes but not change the essence of their response.