JOUR 601 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Institutional Review Board, American Sociological Association
Document Summary
Two moral issues that are relevant to almost any empirical journal article ethics and politics. Politics has to do with the morality of research goals or purposes: Ethics in everyday life: casual snooping and gossip. Along with risky questioning, everyday conversationalists also engage in snooping and gossiping. Friends, neighbors, and other companions want to know: who is having relationship trouble, who is having financial success, who has gained or lost weight, who votes democratic or. People look and listen to discover the latest, and then they reveal and discuss it with others. With the advent of the internet, personal information obtained by snooping or gossip can now be shared by text, chat, and e-mail, or posted on a website, leading to the public disparagement of someone"s reputation. Social scientists tend to do a better job of collecting and sharing information in an ethical manner. Ethical practices that set social research above ordinary human inquiry.