Ethical Issues and Ethics Reviews in Social Science Research

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas R. Wassenaar ◽  
Nicole Mamotte
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research

scholarly journals Announcement for 20th Asian Bioethics Conference at Dhaka

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shamima Parvin Lasker
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Directorate General

ABC20 will be held at Dhaka, Bangladesh, in cooperation with Social Science Research Council, Bangladesh, Planning Division, Ministry of Planning; Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare; Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC); Asian Bioethics Association (ABA) and Eubios Ethics Institute, Thailand, New Zeeland and Japan. It provides opportunity for all scholars around the world to gather feedback on their research, maximize networking opportunities, and learn the latest information and methodologies on bioethics. The previous conferences have been held in China, Japan, Korea, Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Iran, the Philippines and Taiwan. The conference will bring together scholars and policy makers from many disciplines all around the world (beyond the Asia and the Pacific) to discuss and deliberate the latest ethical issues in biomedicine, biotechnology, science, social science and education for dilammas facing today for humanity.

scholarly journals How to get out of the Stanford Prison Experiment: Revisiting Social Science Research Ethics

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
HARRY PERLSTADT
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Male Student ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Extreme Stress ◽  
Normal Individuals ◽  
Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment has continued to raise questions about social science research ethics. Male student volunteers were randomly assigned to be prisoners or guards in a simulation in which the guards became sadistic and the prisoners showed extreme stress. Two ethical issues are the ability of the participants to leave the experiment and the failure to provide adequate oversight and intervening to limit the abuse of the prisoners. In 2018, these issues were revisited and some declared the experiment unscientific and untrustworthy. However, the experiment was carried out before many social science research ethics were established. A detailed description of the experiment reveals insights on how group dynamics and social structure can encourage normal individuals to harm one another in a prison environment. The study is a cautionary tale that should be included in textbooks to improve social science research, demonstrate the need for research ethics, and prevent outrageous treatment of prisoners in the real world.

scholarly journals Using social media images as data in social science research

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110387
Author(s):  
Yan Chen ◽  
Kate Sherren ◽  
Michael Smit ◽  
Kyung Young Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Use Of Social Media

We conducted a scoping review to identify and describe trends in the use of social media images as data sources to inform social science research in published articles from 2015 to 2019. The identified trends include the following: (1) there is increasing interest in social media images as research data, especially in disciplines like sociology, cultural studies, communication and environmental studies; (2) the photo sample size is often smaller than that is typically used in text-based social media analysis and usually is collected manually; (3) thematic coding, object recognition and narrative analysis are the most popular analysis methods that are often conducted manually; (4) computer vision and machine-learning technologies have been increasingly but still infrequently used and are not fit for all purposes; and (5) relatively few papers mention ethics and privacy issues, or apply strategies to address ethical issues. We identify noteworthy research gaps, and opportunities to address limitations and challenges.

scholarly journals O czym pamiętać, pytając o rzeczy trudne?

Politeja ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2(65)) ◽  
pp. 307-322
Author(s):  
Adam Żaliński
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Qualitative Interviewing ◽  
Psychological Literature ◽  
Sensitive Topics ◽  
Sensitive Issues

What to Remember When Asking About Difficult Issues? Some Remarks on the Methodology of Sensitive Research Dealing with sensitive topics in social science research has a distinct and well established tradition, and post-memory studies may fall into this category as well. The paper focuses on practical issues connected to qualitative interviewing on sensitive topics. In detail, it bridges the gap between psychological literature and practice, primarily counselling psychology, and scholarship on sensitive topics present in many areas of sociology. The main problems that a researcher may face while conducting interviews on sensitive issues lay in or are connected to the structure of the interview, the resistance of the informant as well as the authenticity and personal communication competences. Attention is devoted to ethical issues present in this category of research.

scholarly journals Digital bioethics: introducing new methods for the study of bioethical issues

2021 ◽  
pp. medethics-2021-107387
Author(s):  
Manuel Schneider ◽  
Effy Vayena ◽  
Alessandro Blasimme
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Computational Social Science ◽  
Empirical Bioethics ◽  
Public Square ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bioethical Issues

The online space has become a digital public square, where individuals interact and share ideas on the most trivial to the most serious of matters, including discussions of controversial ethical issues in science, technology and medicine. In the last decade, new disciplines like computational social science and social data science have created methods to collect and analyse such data that have considerably expanded the scope of social science research. Empirical bioethics can benefit from the integration of such digital methods to investigate novel digital phenomena and trace how bioethical issues take shape online.Here, using concrete examples, we demonstrate how novel methods based on digital approaches in the social sciences can be used effectively in the domain of bioethics. We show that a digital turn in bioethics research aligns with the established aims of empirical bioethics, integrating with normative analysis and expanding the scope of the discipline, thus offering ways to reinforce the capacity of bioethics to tackle the increasing complexity of present-day ethical issues in science and technology. We propose to call this domain of research in bioethics digital bioethics.

Current Issues in Behavioral and Social Science Research Ethics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James DuBois ◽  
Emily Lisi
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Privacy And Confidentiality

Many researchers consider behavioral and social science (BSS) studies as “soft” science with negligible ethical risk. However, specific ethical issues arise in BSS research that require special consideration on the part of researchers and ethics review committees. This chapter focuses on these issues within the context of three studies that demonstrate concerns that may arise in conducting BSS research. Topics include deciding what BSS studies should be defined as “research” (or not), risks inherent in specific types of BSS research, protection of privacy and confidentiality, and special considerations in informed consent for BSS studies. Special topics addressed in this chapter include the ethical issues associated with studies utilizing social media and community-based participatory research, as well as the importance of rigor and reproducibility in BSS research in the context of ethical review. Finally, the chapter highlights the necessity of empirical study of ethical issues in BSS research to assess decision-making in an ever-evolving social landscape.

scholarly journals Reading Foucault: Genealogy and Social Science Research Methodology and Ethics

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Bastalich
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
Interview Methodology

Foucault's work has given rise to increased methodological sensitivity of the political dangers associated with traditional qualitative approaches in the social sciences. There is a growing awareness that the widespread use of the research interview is not indicative of a deepening insight into the workings of culture, but is part of a broader social technology for its reproduction. In an effort to re-imagine interview methodology, scholars have read Foucault to suggest the need for greater attention to the active co-construction of research conclusions arising from interview based research. This has led in turn to the view that post modern approaches produce localized, temporally specific knowledge that fails to shed light on deeper, more enduring social structures. This paper questions these interpretations of Foucault's work, arguing that they fail to accurately represent his genealogical method or to consider its implications for research ethics. Foucault rejects a view of knowledge as emerging from the active social constructions of agents or of institutionalised ‘interests’. Rather, Foucault sees knowledge as an outcome, often accidental, of interrelated historical practices and discourses that produce the subjects and objects of social science discourse itself. The implications of Foucault's work for thinking about research ethics is not a return to authenticity or to analyses of social structure, but a rejection of the centralised, regulatory claims of an organised scientific discourse. The paper comprises a review of social science responses to post structural insights, coverage of the critical epistemological differences between Foucault's method and other key social theory paradigms, and a discussion of the critical ethical issues these differences raise for the social sciences.

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