SOCI 211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Endangerment, Psychological Stress

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology (Arts)
• Course: SOCI 211
• Professor: Yasmin Bayer

Document Summary

Ethical considerations must be attended to during all phases of the research process. It is important to consider ethics and potential constraints when doing research in the real world. Just as certain procedures are too impractical to use, others are either ethically prohibitive or politically difficult or even impossible: ethical considerations are not always self-evident. 20th century: social scientific research has the potential to harm subjects: Potential to put them in a legal jeopardy especially when underground or deviant behavior is being measured. The goal was to create a standard of ethical norms that transcended disciplinary boundaries. Ethical considerations concerning human subjects are increasingly complex and continually evolving. There is not always an agreement on what is ethical or not. Any given research may present the researcher with new and challenging ethical dilemmas: even when ethical aspects of a situation are debatable, there is something to argue about, ethics are typically associated with morality.