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. Apart from the Research world, the amount of visible information concerning any of us, and the powers to surveil people s lives, has increased far more.

tensions between logic and ethics exist, careful consider-ation of ethical issues is critical to the success or failure of any high-quality research involving humans. The first portion of this chapter examines some of the historical background of research ethics, including some of the major events that influenced current ethical research practices.

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