SOAN 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3, 8, 12: Ordinal Data, Beta, Content Analysis
9 Aug 2016
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Chapter 3: ethics in social research page 47-67: Scientific misconduct: scientific misconduct includes research fraud and plagiarism; it occurs when a researcher falsifies or distorts the data or the methods of data collection, or plagiarizes the work of others. Unethical but legal: behaviour may be unethical but legal ex: plagiarizing may not be illegal because it won"t violate a copyright law if the sociologist"s dissertation doesn"t have a copyright filed with the. U. s. government, but it is still unethical according to standards of professional behaviour. Ethical issues involving research participants: acting ethically requires that a researcher balance the value of advancing knowledge against the value of noninterference in the lives of others. It is a researcher"s responsibility to be aware of all types of potential harm and to take specific actions to minimize the risk to participants at all times. Its best to begin with too little stress, risking a finding of no effect, than to create too much.
