SOC 357 : Chapter 3 Book Notes.docx
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Voluntary participation: research often intrudes on people"s lives, reveal personal info, hard to justify except that their findings may help humanity, some thought that they might benefit from participation not, prisoners often test drugs on completely voluntary then, students participate in surveys by professors b/c they fear, problems with voluntary participation: downgrade if they don"t, teacher can leave room, have students drop off, certain types of people willingly participate, cannot generalize, often researcher will just do study without informing participants, doesn"t solve problem . Anonymity and confidentiality: anonymity neither researchers nor readers can id person in response, i. e. mail survey with id numbers, drug study of students anonymity ensured honest answers and no police inquiries, confidentiality researcher can id person in response, but won"t publicly, hard to follow b/c courts don"t recognize social research data as privileged communication", training in ethical responsibilities is crucial, remove information as soon as no longer necessary.
