SOC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 3: Belmont Report, Syphilis, Endangerment

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100
• Professor: Jennifer Anne Strickler

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Chapter 3: ethics and politics of social research. There are three main constraints on social research: scientific, administrative, ethical and political. This holds true for the social research community. A major tenet a social research is that experimental participation must be voluntary: but, the scientific goal of generalizability is threatened if experimental subjects or survey respondents are a certain type of person. These people could be predisposed to certain traits and thus make the data unable to be generalized to society as a whole. After the nazi scientific experiments in the us tuskegee syphilis experiment a series of fundamental ethical principles was laid out to guide research on human subjects, called the. Concerns over subjects revealing information that could embarrass themselves or endanger home life, work, or friendships, must be evaluated. The harm of social research forcing a subject to face aspects of themselves they normally don"t consider or question could cause psychological harm to their self-esteem.