COM 381 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Academic Freedom, Assistant Professor

• School: URI
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COM 381
• Professor: Abran Salazar

Document Summary

Research is a human activity with serious moral implications. Some things may be legal, but it doesn"t make them ethical. Ethical communication researcher research activities are guided by a larger concerns about fairness, honesty, and public good. A good synonym for ethics is morality (moralis customs) Ethics moral principles and recognized rules of conduct regarding a particular class of human actions. Research ethics moral principles and recognized rules of conduct governing the activities of researchers. Should be consistent with fundamental moral principles that apply to all human conduct. Generally agree that certain forms of behavior are ethically acceptable and others unacceptable when conducting research. Ethical decisions about research are ones that conform as well as possible to the values and behaviors considered proper by the larger community of researchers. Ethical decisions can rarely be judged as right or wrong; they exist on a continuum ranging from clearly unethical to clearly ethical.