Exam 3: Ethical Issues in Social Science Research

The Belmont Report states the importance of treating people as autonomous agents with the right to decide whether to participate in a study.This principle is referred to as

Dr.Holloway conducts a study of the parents of school shooting victims.She carefully conducts a risk versus benefit analysis,weighing the risk of ________ against the benefit of ________.

What was the ethical breach in the Milgram obedience experiment?

If a researcher was looking for ethical guidelines developed specifically by and for sociologists,she might look to

What is one lasting result of the National Research Act of 1974?

Philip Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment included a consent form,which every research subject signed.In what way did informed consent make it more difficult to identify an emerging ethical problem?

In 2004 it was revealed that the Census Bureau had provided detailed data on Arab-Americans to the Department of Homeland Security.Which of the following is the MOST important "lesson learned" from that earlier situation?

Jack Katz makes a complex argument against IRBs,the central point of which is that IRBs have

The ________ inspired Stanley Milgram's experiment.

Which document forms the foundation of the U.S.national system of human subjects' protection?

What did researchers do to the subjects in the Tuskegee syphilis experiment?

You are launching a sociology research project about elderly people in your community.You may need to use a consent form if

Shawn has read the Belmont Report and follows established practice for ensuring the protections emphasized in the report.Accordingly,Shawn develops a plan for ensuring

Define debriefing.Offer one reason why debriefing is likely sufficient for compensating for deception in research.Offer one reason why debriefing may not be sufficient for compensation for deception.

What kind of institutions must have institutional review boards?

In the early twenty-first century,Serena writes a research ethics paper about the legacy of Philip Zimbardo.She considers his work and reputation over the 40 years since the Stanford Prison Experiment (1971)and concludes he was

Lorena wants to conduct a study of how race is discussed among jurors on race-related police brutality cases.Her study follows the results of the Wichita jury study,so she

The American Anthropological Association denounced the Human Terrain System because

Linda writes a poem about the mayor of her town,including identifiable details.Linda's poem is NOT considered human subjects research because

What did Nazi concentration camp experiments and the Tuskegee syphilis experiment have in common?