Mod5: Literature Review

About this module

In this module, we focus on the ethics in social research. Here we ask questions such as

what is the history of ethics in scientific research?
what are the ethical standards of today?
what is the process for getting research

After this module, students should be able to...

After this module, students should be able to

Homework

CITI Certification
Research Methods Practice with Ethics

Assigned Readings

Babbie, Chapter 3 OR
TopHat Chapter 4

Extra Readings (suggested)

Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1932 - 1972)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
- author's site

Assigned Media

Stanley Milgram - 1961-1963

- Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
- Sheridan, C. and King, R. (1972) Obedience to Authority with and Authentic Victim, 1972. (pdf)

Prison Stanford Experiment (1973)

Criticisms:

- guards were pushed by researchers
- guards were doing what they thought researchers wanted
- small sample size
- anecdotal evidence
- biggest results was that we take on the roles assigned to us
- Insider Higher Ed - Time to Dismiss the Stanford Prison Experiment?
  - alternative explanations
  - predispositions to sadism (selection bias)
  - BBC Prison Study: "when people can’t create a social system that works, they’ll 'more readily accept extreme solutions proposed by others' "

Pok-BabbieCH3-Ethics & Politics of Social Research

Chapter 3

Can I make a collapsible text with ppt?

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