ethics and social sensitivity

• socially sensitive research defined by siebar and stanley in 1988
• they defined it as research that could lead to negative consequences for the people participating or any wider group
• implications impact people and can lead to the discrimination of a group
• research can be used to justify laws that harm the people who were studied
• validity is an issue because research may not have prpoer methodology and could be conducted with bias
• you can use briefing and debriefing to deal with ethical issues
• ethical issue that is considered after data collection is publication and issues of confidentiality
• the ethics committee decides if you can run your research after reviewing it
• a cost benefit analysis is done to decide if research should be conducted
• cost benefit analysis - weighing up potential benefits and harms to society and individuals of the research
• BPS - ethics committee
• organisation promotes - respect for privacy, confidentiality, wellbeing of participants and communities
• negative thing that could happen is researchers avoid researching difficult topics and marginalised groups over concerns over social sensitive and ethics