the practical, ethical and theoretical 2.2

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Lilla Saiker

Cards (8)

practical 1 (money)
money for funding
how much the research will cost (e.g. larger the number of participants, more costly)
questionaires v indepth interview in foreign country
secondary research provide cost-free research
practical 2 (time)
the longer the research takes, the greater financial commitment they make (time equates to money)
practical 3 (possibility to actually research)
can researcher gain access to particular social situations or individuals willing to take part willing to take part
situations where researcher is barred from observing (e.g. meetings of senior management in education)
issues of access and willing participants
ethical 1 (gaining consent)
subjects must be willing to give informed consent (aware that research is happening)
problem if subjects are young, lack mental capacity to agree
problem if awareness of research affects behaviour
ethical 2 (effects on the people being studied)
experiments may lead to subject being harmed
subjects may behave in immoral ways which gives them a negative impression of themselves
ethical 3 (confidentiality)
some apspects of research should stay confidential if could harm respondents or insitution
e.g. teachers career affected if headmaster knows their negative comments or school may be unhappy if accounts of dispruptive students are associated with school
researchers may need to guarantee some details are withheld
ethical 4 (effects on wider society)
e.g. famillies of those being researched may be given details participants want secret
research may be used to justify policy that causes harm
ethical 5 (legal and immoral issues)
sociologists may drawn into situations where they commit crimes or aid?/witness deviant acts
e.g. kenneth turner discovered a prisoner had taken on the identity of someone else in order to serve less time, felt like he owed prisoner confidentiality and didnt tell authorities
most reseachers condider it immoral to mislead those being studied