SOCIOL 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Statistical Significance, Hypothesis, Nomothetic
30 Jan 2014
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No one should be forced to participate. People being researched should never be injured (physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, psychologically) E. g, zimbardo prison experiment, experiments on canadian prisoners between. Informed consent-a norm in which subjects base their voluntary participation in research projects on a full understanding of possible risk involved. Anonymity-guaranteed a research project when neither the researchers nor the reasers of the findings can identify a given response with a given respondent. Confidentiality-guaranteed when the researcher can identify a given person"s responses but promises not to do so publicly. The legal system, on occasion, threatens confidentially agreements between researcher and subject, eg. ogden case in bc (assisted suicide) Deception within social research needs to be justified by scientific or administrative concerns. Debriefing-interviewing subjects to learn about their experience of participation in the project. Ethical obligation to colleagues in the scientific community. All results must be reported (positive and negative)
