SOC224 Lecture Notes - Whistleblower
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Religion and deviancy: scientific misconduct, intentional violation of accepted scientific practice (not accidental, fabrication, falsification, ethical violations, ethical violation tearoom trade laud humphreys, ethical debate: are deceit and privacy violations (wrote down license plates of all the guys, did a follow up survey found out they were married with kids) justified in science to produce more accurate results, (when gay men were pushed to margins of society, met up in public bathrooms etc, he put them at harm and risk of exposure which they didn"t consent to, scientific misconduct: explanations, 1. Corporatization of science: bad apple theory, individual, psychological (& criminological) explanation of scientific deviance, (is not a good sociological approach but is a common explanation, misconduct is rare, because scientists search for truth and are unlikely to be deviant, science has methods to identify cheaters, and so it can self regulate.
