Ethical Considerations Of Research Flashcards
1
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What are ethics and what does the term ethical mean?
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- practices that are seen as morally right and wrong when conducting research such as confidentiality and anonymity
2
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What is the BSA?
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- The British sociological association, regulatory body that puts down ethical guidelines that sociologists should follow when conducting research
3
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What are the ethical guidelines?
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- confidentiality
- privacy
- right to withdraw
- Avoiding harm to participants
- protecting vulnerable groups
- informed consent
- ensuring legality
- safeguarding
4
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What is the meaning of confidentiality?
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- information is kept between researcher and respondent
5
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What is the impact of keeping confidentiality in a research?
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- more truthful, increases validity
6
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What is the meaning of privacy?
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- where respondents are not invaded with private life, respecting boundaries
7
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What is the impact of keeping privacy in a research?
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- more comfortable and truthful, builds rapport and increases validity, generalise
8
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What is the meaning of anonymity?
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- keeping participant’s identity hidden
9
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What is the impact of keeping anonymity in a research?
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- more truthful, increases validity and generalisability, decreases socially desirable answers
10
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What is the meaning of right to withdraw?
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- participants have the right to back out when needed, information collected must be destroyed
11
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What is the impact of keeping right to withdraw in a research?
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- increases interpretation bias
12
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What does avoiding harm to participants mean?
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- avoiding mental, physical distress to participants, pilot study
13
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What is the impact of keeping avoiding harm to participants in a research?
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- increases ethics, and truthful answers, increases validity and generalisability
14
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What does informed consent mean?
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- permission of research granted by participant
15
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What is the impact of keeping informed consent in a research?
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- may trigger participants, researcher and participant at harm, less truthful, decreases validity, decreases rapport, decreases reliability and generalisability
