Responsible to Whom? Obligations to Participants and Society in Social Science Research
Finding Common Ground: Consensus in Research Ethics Across the Social Sciences
ISBN: 978-1-78714-131-5, eISBN: 978-1-78714-130-8
Publication date: 15 February 2017
Abstract
In this chapter I explore the issues of whose interest and rights are at stake when social scientists conduct their research. I caution that the ethical considerations, values and principles that pertain to the social sciences are not always the same as those which rightly underpin the biomedical sciences and so not all should be imported. In particular I consider the dangers of applying a ‘participant protection model’ to social science research. I suggest that the social sciences must be regulated through a framework that understands and enables these differences rather than misconstrues and hinders good social science research.
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Citation
Sleat, M. (2017), "Responsible to Whom? Obligations to Participants and Society in Social Science Research", Finding Common Ground: Consensus in Research Ethics Across the Social Sciences (Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity, Vol. 1), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 37-46. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2398-601820170000001004
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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