SOC221H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sampling Frame, Scatter Plot, Qualitative Research
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Chapter 3 - ethics: psychological abuse, stress, or loss of self-esteem, some say that the precautions taken and the knowledge gained outweighed the stress and potential psychological harm that subjects experienced in the milgram experiments. Or may experience guilt or regret after: legal harm, researcher is resp for protecting participants from increased risk of arrest, a related ethical issue arises when a researcher learns of illegal activity when collecting data. A researcher must weigh the value of protecting the researcher subject relationship and the benefits to future researchers against potential serious harm to innocent people: in some studies, observing illegal behaviour may be central to the research project. If a researcher covertly observes and records illegal behaviour, then supplies the information to law- enforcement authorities, he or she is violating ethical standards regarding research participants and is undermining future social research. At the same time, a researcher who fails to report illegal behaviour is indirectly permitting criminal behaviour.
