The handbook of social research ethics

Mertens, Donna M. (Added Author). Ginsberg, Pauline E. (Added Author).

Summary: Brings together international scholars across the social and behavioural sciences and education to address those ethical issues that arise in the theory and practice of research within the technologically advancing and culturally complex world in which we live.

Record details

ISBN: 9781412949187
ISBN: 1412949181
Physical Description: print
xvi, 667 pages ; 26 cm
Publisher: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

History and Philosophy -- 1. Social science research ethics: Historical and Philosophical Issues / Karen Strohm Kitchener and Richard F. Kitchener -- 2. Research Ethics in the Postmodern Context / Joshua W. Clegg and Brent D. Slife -- 3. Feminist Perspectives on Research Ethics / Mary M. Brabeck and Kalina M. Brabeck -- 4. Critical Race Theory: Ethics and Dimensions of Diversity in Research / Veronica G. Thomas -- 5. Philosophy, Ethics, and the Disability Community / Martin Sullivan -- 6. Transformative Research and Ethics / Donna M. Mertens, Heidi M. Holmes and Raychelle L. Harris -- Sect. II. Perspectives on Ethical Regulation -- 7. Governmental Regulation in Social Science / Linda Mabry -- 8. Role of Institutional Review Boards: Ethics: Now You See Them, Now You Don't / Richard Speiglman and Patricia Spear -- 9. Researching Ourselves Back to Life: Taking Control of the Research Agenda in Indian Country / Joan LaFrance and Cheryl Crazy Bull -- 10. Ethical Practices in Qualitative Research / Yvonna S. Lincoln -- 11. Ethical Perspectives in Program Evaluation / Amanda Wolf, David Turner and Kathleen Toms -- Sect. III. Ethics and Research Methods -- 12. On Ethics in Sociolegal Research / Richard Schwartz -- 13. Experiments, Quasi-Experiments, and Ethics / Melvin M. Mark and Chris Gamble -- 14. Ethics of Data Archiving: Issues From Four Perspectives / David Johnson and Merry Bullock -- 15. Ethnography: Constitutive Practice and Research Ethics / Anne Ryen -- 16. Covenantal Ethics and Action Research: Exploring a Common Foundation for Social Research / Mary Brydon-Miller -- 17. Research Ethics and Peacemaking / Colin Irwin -- Sect. IV. Ethical Issues in Research Practice -- 18. Cultivating Self as Responsive Instrument: Working the Boundaries and Borderlands for Ethical Border Crossings / Hazel Symonette -- 19. Ethics of the Researcher-Subject Relationship: Experiences From the Field / Peggy Cabo Ntseane -- 20. Maintaining Indigenous Voices / Fiona Cram.