Chapter 3 Ethical Issues in Research - Pearson

33 Social scientists, perhaps to a greater extent than the average citizen, have an Ethical obligation to their col-leagues, their study populations, and the larger society. The reason for this is that social scientists delve into the lives of other human beings. From such excursions into private social lives, various policies, practices, and even laws may result. Thus, researchers must ensure the rights, privacy, and welfare of the people and communities that form the focus of their the past several decades, methods of data collection, organization, and analysis have become more sophisticated and penetrating. As a consequence, the extent or scope of Research has greatly expanded.

researchers working for the U.S. government (Reverby, 2011). While the Guatemalan study lasted only two years, it was in many ways more egregious in its design. Mental patients, prisoners, and soldiers were deliberately exposed to syphilis (with the cooperation of infected prostitutes) in order to test the effectiveness of penicillin ...

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