Sociology 2206A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Syphilis, Urban Decay, United States Public Health Service
17 Dec 2020
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Concerns dilemmas and conflict that arise over the proper ways to conduct research. The pursuit of knowledge and learning new things about the social world - privacy, diff types of democratic freedoms, self esteem, prevention of loss of dignity. Ethics helps define what is legitimate and moral (and what is not) Need to think about ethics the entire time you do research - from topic selection and all stages following. Scientific misconduct main type of unethical behaviour. This is generally when researches falsify or distort the data, or plagiarize someone else"s work, could also include doing scientific research that isn"t accepted within the scientific community (unorthodox way of conducting research could be seen as misconduct) Research fraud here researchers fake data that was never collected, or fake report data that was never collected. Plagiarism where someone steals someone else"s ideas or writing without proper citation.
