Social Sciences

Authors: Sieber, Joan E.
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Applied social research methods series v. 31
Abstract: After giving a brief history of the development of guidelines and policies, the author of this volume seeks to help students conducting research in the sciences develop valid research methods and procedures that also follow ethical ...
Year: 1992

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Authors: Sheskin, Theodore J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This paper presents a analytic hierarchy process that can be used to determine coauthor responsibility for a scientific paper describing collaborative research. The objective is to hold coauthors accountable for their individual con...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-006-0053-4

Authors: Pimple, Kenneth D.
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: The international library of essays in public and professional ethics
Abstract: This volume includes more than 40 important articles on integrity and misconduct, biomedical research, the social and disciplinary contexts of science, research in the social sciences, the social responsibility of science and scient...
Year: 2008

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Authors: Devenport, Lynn D. ; Antes, Alison L. ; Connelly, Shane ; Murphy, Stephen T. ; Hill, Jason H. ; Waples, Ethan P. ; Brown, Ryan P. ; Mumford, Michael D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics & Behavior
Abstract: This article reports on the successfulness of a new ethics training course developed at the University of Oklahoma that stresses the importance of the strategies people apply to make sense of ethical problems. Fifty-nine doctoral st...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1080/10508420802487815

Authors: University of Minnesota, Office of the Vice President for Research
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Prof. Y wrote a book about a piece of work located in a remote country. The owners of the work wanted to read the manuscript before it is published. Prof. Y sends them the manuscript and a letter that says that if she has not heard ...
Year: 2004
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/permissiontopublish.pdf

Authors: Meyers, Christopher
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author argues that institutional culture, along with the irresponsible conduct of individuals, contributes to way in which scientific research is conducted. To help improve institutional ethical culture, it helps to define what...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-004-0022-8

Authors: Panel on Institutional Review Boards Surveys ; United States, National Research Council ; Social Science Research
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: Institutional review boards (IRBs) are the linchpins of the protection systems that govern human participation in research. In recent years, high-profile cases have focused attention on the weaknesses of the procedures in place to p...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309088526

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: Callahan, Joan C.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This anthology includes a large number of readings covering topics such as the moral foundations of professional ethics, models of the professional-client relationship, deception, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, profe...
Year: 1988

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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: Israel, Mark ; Hay, Iain
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This volume focuses on ethical issues that come up for researchers in the social sciences, and has four main goals. The first is to demonstrate the practical value of thinking seriously and systematically about what constitutes ethi...
Year: 2006

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Authors: Tate, Paul D. ; Denecke, Daniel D.
Publication Type: Report
Secondary Title: Council of Graduate Schools
Abstract: This report identifies "best practices" in responsible conduct of research (RCR) education and is aimed at helping graduate deans, department chairs, and faculty members establish and sustain educational programs that foster RCR on ...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.cgsnet.org/Default.aspx?tabid=79&CategoryID=1&Category2ID=3&List=0&Level=2&ProductID=72

Authors: National Postdoctoral Association
Publication Type: Report
Secondary Title: National Postdoctoral Association
Abstract: This web site and accompanying guide, developed by the National Postdoctoral Association, looks at the importance of including responsible conduct of research training in postdoctoral programs, and includes best practices and exampl...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/publications/rcr

Authors: Antes, Alison L. ; Hill, Jason H. ; Waples, Ethan P. ; Murphy, Stephen T. ; Brown, Ryan P. ; Mumford, Michael D. ; Connelly, Shane ; Devenport, Lynn D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics & Behavior
Abstract: Differences across fields and experience levels are frequently considered in discussions of ethical decision making and ethical behavior. In the present study, doctoral students in the health, biological, and social sciences complet...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.ethicslibrary.org/resources/165/

Authors: American Association of University Professors
Publication Type: Report
Secondary Title: American Association of University Professors
Abstract: This report summarizes concerns about Institutional Review Board (IRB) oversight of social science research, discusses the relationship IRBs have to issues of academic freedom, and describes government regulations and their applicat...
Year: 2000
URL: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/comm/rep/A/protecting.htm

Authors: Perlstadt, Harry
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Medical Humanities Report
Abstract: The author discusses the need to restore a reasonable balance of power between the interests of researchers and the power of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). The author looks at some ways in which IRB committees could potentiall...
Year: 2004
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Perlstadt%20Bill%20of%20Rights.pdf

Authors: Oakes, J. Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Evaluation Review
Abstract: This article aims to assist social scientists struggling to understand and work with Institutional Review Boards(IRBs). The author theorizes why IRBs frustrate and insists there is only one remedy: We must accept the legitimacy of I...
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1177/019384102236520

Authors: Hoonaard, Will C. van den
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: The authors of this volume challenge the biomedical basis of research ethics review policies and suggest that these guidelines were created with quantitative research in mind, and actually impede or interrupt work which is not hypot...
Year: 2002

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Authors: Guillemin, Marilys ; Gillam, Lynn
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Qualitative Inquiry
Abstract: Ethical tensions are part of the everyday practice of doing research--all kinds of research. How do researchers deal with ethical problems that arise in the practice of their research, and are there conceptual frameworks that they c...
Year: 2004
URL: http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/2/261
DOI: 10.1177/1077800403262360

Authors: Hamilton, James C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Chronicle of Higher Education
Abstract: Probes ethical considerations in the use of the Internet for social science research. Lack of guidelines for responsible use of the Internet; Inconsistent use of safeguards for protecting participants in traditional research; Requir...
Year: 1999
URL: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Ethics-of-Conducting/19432/

Publication Type: Book
Abstract: A collection of essays exploring the ethical issues involved in research in the social sciences. ...
Year: 1981

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Authors: Haggerty, Kevin
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Qualitative Sociology
Abstract: This article presents an analysis of the Canadian ethics review process, and suggests that the new formal system for regulating the ethical conduct of scholarly research is experiencing a form of “ethics creep.” This is characterize...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1023/B:QUAS.0000049239.15922.a3

Authors: Aronson, Jane ; Sinding, Christina
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Qualitative Research
Abstract: This article discusses the ethical issues raised, including the power differential that exists between researchers and human participants, in interviews. The aim of this article is to augment collective understandings of the ethi...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1177/1468794103003001770

Authors: Saleh, Jehangir ; Karabanow, Alexander ; Walton, Nancy
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Academic Ethics
Abstract: University based academic Research Ethics Boards (REB) face the particularly difficult challenge of trying to achieve representation from a variety of disciplines, methodologies and research interests. Additionally, many are current...
Year: 2008
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10805-008-9059-7
DOI: 10.1007/s10805-008-9059-7

Authors: Rogers-Dillon, Robin H.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Qualitative Research
Abstract: The article discusses some of the ethical issues raided in qualitative research efforts with hierarchical research teams have emerged. The model of lead researchers and a group of lower status research assistants common in the natu...
Year: 2005

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