Exam 3: The Ethics and Politics of Social Research

Trained as a lawyer,Charles decides to do research on the lawyer-client relationship.He wants to examine the patterns of interaction between lawyers and their clients.He asks for your advice on the ethical issues involved in doing social research.You tell Charles

The increased use of _________ methods in social research has provided new difficulties for researchers to navigate regarding protection of subjects

A research study in which participants are not aware they are submitting sensitive personal information for research purposes would be easily approved by an Institutional Review Board.

If a research study was not rigorously preplanned and organized,it is best to

A researcher performs an experiment that involves the subjects viewing violent images on television.Afterwards the researcher talks in-depth to each of the subjects to find out if any psychological harm was done.This procedure is known as

Which of the following techniques of data collection is MOST likely to make a guarantee of anonymity difficult?

Researchers should immediately stop a project and contact the institutional review board if ethical violations occur.

The lack of intrusion of the researcher's own political position on research is called

Deception is commonly seen in which kind of research?

Which of the following statements is NOT found in the AAPOR Code of Professional Ethics and Practices?

Which one of the following is false regarding the lessons of Babbie's discussion of politics?

Harm to participants can include all but which of the following?

The only partial exception to the lack of political norms is the generally accepted view that

To remain objective,sociologists should not get involved in political debates regarding topics they study.

Ethical constraints on researchers only extend to their subjects.

The participants in Cameroon's study could only be linked to their survey responses by the researcher himself,and he will not release that information.He employed:

Describe all of the steps that researchers can take to ensure that they do not harm subjects.

How can anonymity be ensured in paper-based mail surveys?

The primary ethical research issue raised by the Milgram study was

Confidentiality is when a researcher can identify who a participant is,but no one else can.