Ethical Issues

• Ethical Issues

  ethics referees to moral issues of right and wrong
• Ethical Issues

  informed consent : researcher must obtain full informed consent from participants before starting research. Means that participants must be completely aware about whose sponsoring research before being asked to agree
• Ethical Issues

  Deception : making or allowing someone to believe something that is not true. Researcher shouldn’t deceive participants deliberately or inadvertently.

  • certain groups such as children or those with severe learning disabilities are more vulnerable
• Ethical Issues Right to Privacy

  researcher should respect the right of participants to privacy and anonyminity . This is done by keeping all personal information about the participants private.
• Right to Withdraw

  • participants should be made aware of their right to withdraw from the research at any time
  • some research methods make this easier than others however
• Sensitivity

  • researchers should take into account wether the issue being studied is sensitive in nature .
  • for example issues such as domestic violence criminal or deviant activity are regarded as sensitive issues
  • methods such as interviews , questionnaires may involve exploring sensitive issues.