Sociology

Authors: Kraus, Rachel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: College Teaching
Abstract: In a research methods class, groups of students were assigned one of nine ethical norms to discussed in the class textbook and the American Sociological Association Code of Ethics. The groups were then asked to role-play a scenario ...
Year: 2008

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Authors: Levine, Felice J. ; Kennedy, John M. ; Iutcovich, Joyce M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The article provides an overview of the recent efforts and activities of the American Sociological Association (ASA) to keep its Code of Ethics visible and relevant to its membership. ...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-003-0007-z

Authors: Haimes, Erica ; Williams, Robin
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: British Journal of Sociology
Abstract: There are growing debates about the relationship between the two disciplines of sociology and ethics, particularly as they each become increasingly involved in research and policy formation on the life sciences, especially genetics....
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2007.00160.x

Authors: Missaghian, Mariam ; Brugge, Doug
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This essay explores the ethical issues related to related to community collaborative research that involves Native Americans. The authors focus on the Navajo Nation's efforts to regulate research within its jurisdiction, and how it ...
Year: 2006

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Authors: Brugge, Doug ; Kole, Alison
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The article summarizes the results of a study looking at the differences in the ethical issues that are raised in community-based participatory research as opposed to conventional research that is based on an individualistic ethics....
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.researchethics.org/uploads/pdf/public_housing.pdf

Authors: Anderson, Melissa S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The article summarizes the results from two national surveys of 4,000 faculty and doctoral students in chemistry, civil engineering, microbiology and sociology. The results of the survey indicate that both faculty and students subsc...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-000-0002-6

Authors: Stanley, Barbara ; Sieber, Joan E. ; National Institutes of Health (U. S. ). Office for Protection from Research Risks.
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Sage focus editions.
Abstract: This collection of essays takes a look at the methodology and legal requirements that govern research on minors and seeks to answer the questions on how to reduce the vulnerability of adolescents to risks inherent in research, the l...
Year: 1992

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Authors: Sieber, Joan E.
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Springer series in social psychology.
Abstract: Collection of essays on some of the main ethical issues faced by researchers in the social sciences. ...
Year: 1982

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Authors: Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy ; Leever, Martin G. ; Keller, David R.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This is a collection of case studies covering ethical dilemmas drawn from personal and professional experience, and media accounts. The cases were developed for the Ethics Bowl, a competition similar to College Bowl where teams of u...
Year: 2009

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Authors: Earle, Jason ; Louis, Karen Seashore ; Anderson, Melissa S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: The Journal of Higher Education
Abstract: This article investigates doctoral students' experiences with misconduct in academic departments. Through a hierarchical linear analysis it examines the effects of departmental structure, departmental climate, and academic disciplin...
Year: 1994

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Authors: Schrag, Brian
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author discusses some of the ethical issues that can often come up in the course of ethnographic research, and illustrates his points by relating an historical case of ethnographic research and the sustained moral outrage to the...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-008-9105-2

Authors: Miller, David J. ; Hersen, Michel
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book discusses misconduct in research both from the moral/ethical viewpoint as well as the legal. Covers the institutional and career pressures to perform; the review process used by professional journals and institutional revi...
Year: 1992

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Authors: Penslar, Robin Levin
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: A casebook that includes a large number of cases on research ethics in the sciences and the humanities. Topics covered by the cases incude plagiarism, confidentiality, conflict of interest, fraud and misconduct, the reporting of dat...
Year: 1995

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Authors: Brewer, Charles L. ; Ware, Mark E.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: his volume provides instructors with immediate, practical statistical applications and ideas for teaching statistics and research methods to students of psychology, education, and all social and behavioral sciences....
Year: 1999

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Authors: Sieber, Joan E.
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Sage focus editions
Abstract: This concise and straightforward collection of essays, discusses how to document, use and disseminate social science data. The book focuses heavily on the benefits and challenges associating with sharing data, including issues of pr...
Year: 1991

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Publication Type: Book Chapter
Secondary Title: Doing Sociology: Case Studies in Sociological Practice
Abstract: Sociological practice raises a set of ethical issues and values that differ somewhat for clinicians who conduct interventions and applied researchers who carry out assessments and evaluations of programs or analyze policies. This ...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Perlstadt_sociologicalpractice.pdf

Authors: Grodin, Michael A. ; Glantz, Leonard H.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: After providing a historical overview of children as participants in clinical research, this anthology covers the ethical principles and laws regulating the use of children as human research subjects. ...
Year: 1994

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Authors: Davis, Mark S. ; Willse, John T. ; Wester, Kelly L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: This article describes the development of the Responsible Conduct of Research Measure, a test meant to measure levels of misconduct and questionable research practices by researchers in the social and behavioral sciences. Preliminar...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1080/08989620801946891

Authors: DuBois, James M.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the 1960’s, Laud Humphreys observed men having sex with men in public restrooms of parks as part of his dissertation research without disclosing his role as a researcher. What privacy issues are raised in this situation?...
Year: 2004
URL: http://www.emhr.net/index.php?mact=casestudies,cntnt01,default,0&cntnt01what=studie&cntnt01alias=The-Tearoom-Trade-Study&cntnt01returnid=64

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A sociologist who conducted a study of relationships between parents and children after divorce, completed her research and wrote a preliminary draft of her findings before she switched jobs to work at a survey research firm. This j...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case60

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A university committee sends out an informal survey to tenured faculty to help them gather relevant information for a decision they are making. When Professor Martindale is looking over the return surveys, he decides that the findi...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case58

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A researcher conducting a participant-observation work-study of risk behavior in a local community social service organization is asked to hand over her field notes to police after a robbery occurs. The notes include information fr...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case48

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Dr. Cultu is conducting a study of college student behavior, and spends quite a bit of time interviewing individuals who frequent the bars in the area. When a young woman student is murdered, he is asked by local police to have acce...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case37

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Before completing her doctorate, Carrie Medlin took a teaching position at a university where she has now been for seven years. Her students call her "Doctor" Medlin, and much of her research has been based on student questionnaire...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case30

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A ten-year study in old-age income security programs in the U.S. and European nations is in its second year when a sociologist outside of the program asks for a copy of the data to do further analysis. The leader of the project is ...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case62