Ethical implications

Question 1

What are ethical issues?

Answer 1

Arise when there is a conflict between gaining valuable research and preserving the rights and dignity of participants.

Question 2

What are ethical guidelines?

Answer 2

Established to help protect those involved in research.

Question 3

What are ethical implications?

Answer 3

The impact that research has on society, how it influences public policy and/or the way in which certain groups of people are seen.

Question 4

What is socially sensitive research?

Answer 4

Any research that may be controversial, ,e.g. race or sexuality.

Question 5

Who identified a number of concerns that research should be mindful of when conducting socially sensitive research?

Answer 5

Sieber and Stanley

Question 6

What did Sieber and Stanley identify?

Answer 6

• Implications
• Uses/public policy
• Validity of research

Question 7

What are the benefits of socially sensitive research?

Answer 7

• Studies of underrepresented groups and issues may promote greater sensitivity and understanding of these.
• Can help reduce prejudice and encourage acceptance.

Question 8

Describe social control as a criticism.

Answer 8

• America 1920’s and 30’s - a large number of US states enacted legislation that led to the compulsory sterilisation on the grounds that they were feeble minded.
• This was supported by many sections of the psychological and scientific community at the time that suggested that feeble minded people were ‘unfit’ to breed.
• SSR used has been used to ‘prop up’ discriminatory practices in the past and is an argument against widespread adoption.

Question 9

Describe framing the questions as a criticism.

Answer 9

• Sieber and Stanley suggested that the way in which research questions are phrased and investigated may influence the way in which findings are interpreted.