SOC 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Nuremberg Code, Fellatio, Institutional Review Board
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Ethics is synonymous with morality, and doing the ethical thing simply means doing the moral thing. Take a scenario where chris confesses to his friend on killing a person and hiding it near the lake. His friend goes straight to the police and tells on chris. Take the scenario where chris goes to his attorney and confesses. The attorney goes to the lake and sees the victim dead and tells chris to go to the police. The attorney has the ethical obligation to keep the client"s confidence. To be a professional, it involves the duty to defend what may be unpopular cases and vicious criminals. When sociologists mean professional they mean a member of a special kind of occupational group. There are 3 occupational groups qualified as professions: By the mid-nineteenth century, people were suspicious of professions and suggesting that they should not be given so much freedom and autonomy.
