The Handbook of Social Research Ethics

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4129-4918-7
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, 688 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1468 g

The Handbook of Social Research Ethics is the first comprehensive volume of its kind to offer a deeper understanding of the history, theory, philosophy, and implementation of applied social research ethics. Editors Donna M. Mertens and Pauline Ginsberg bring together eminent, international scholars across the social and behavioral sciences and education to address the ethical issues that arise in the theory and practice of research within the technologically advancing and culturally complex world in which we live. In addition, this volume examines the ethical dilemmas that arise in the relationship between research practice and social justice issues.

Key Features

- Situates the ethical concerns in the practice of social science research in historical and epistemological contexts

- Explores the philosophical roots of ethics from the perspectives of Kant, J.S. Mill, Hegel, and others

- Provides an overview and comparison of ethical regulations across disciplines, governments, and additional contexts such as IRBs, program evaluation, and more

- Examines specific ethical issues that arise in traditional methods and methodologies

- Addresses ethical concerns within a variety of diverse, cultural contexts

Intended Audience

This reference is an invaluable resource for university faculty, researchers, ethicists, IRB members, social science practitioners, graduate students, and program evaluators throughout the social and behavioral sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mertens, Donna M.

Ginsberg, Pauline E.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

SECTION ONE: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
1. Social Science Research Ethics: Historical and Philosophical Issues - Karen S. Kitchener and Richard F. Kitchener
2. Research Ethics in the Postmodern Context - Joshua W. Clegg and Brent Slife
3. Feminist Perspectives on Research Ethics - Mary M. Brabeck and Kalina M. Brabeck
4. Critical Race Theory: Ethics and Dimensions of Diversity in Research - Veronica G. Thomas
5. Philosophy, Ethics, and the Disability Community - Martin Sullivan
6. Transformative Research and Ethics - Donna M. Mertens, Raychelle Harris and Heidi Holmes
SECTION TWO: PERSPECTIVES ON ETHICAL REGULATION
7. Governmental Regulation in Social Science - Linda Mabry
8. The Role of Institutional Review Boards: Ethics: Now You See Them, Now You Don't - Richard Speiglman and Patricia Spear
9. Researching Ourselves Back to Life: Taking Control of the Research Agenda in Indian Country - Joan LaFrance and Cheryl Crazy Bull
10. Ethical Practices in Qualitative Research - Yvonna Lincoln
11. Ethical Perspectives in Program Evaluation - Amanda Wolf, David Turner, and Kathleen Toms
SECTION THREE: ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS
12. On Ethics in Social Science Research - Richard Schwartz
13. Experiments, Quasi-Experiments, and Ethics - Mel Mark and Chris Gamble
14. The Ethics of Data Archiving: Issues From Four Perspectives - David Johnson and Merry Bullock
15. Ethnography: Constitutive Practice and Research Ethics - Anne Ryen
16. Covenantal Ethics and Action Research: Exploring a Common Foundation for Social Research - Mary Brydon Miller
17. Research Ethics and Peacemaking - Colin Irwin
SECTION FOUR: ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH PRACTICE
18. Cultivating Self as Responsive Instrument: Working the Boundaries and Borderlands for Ethical Border Crossings - Hazel Symonette
19. The Ethics of the Researcher-Subject Relationship: Experiences From the Field - Peggy Gabo Ntseane
20. Maintaining Indigenous Voices - Fiona Cram
21. Ethical Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychology - David Matsumoto and Carolyn Jones
22. Partnership Ethics - Linda Silka
23. Visual Representation of People and Information: Translating Lives Into Numbers, Words, and Images as Research Data - Julianne H. Newton
24. Use and Misuse of Quantitative Methods: Data Collection, Calculation, and Presentation - Bruce Brown and Dawson Hedges
SECTION FIVE: ETHICS WITHIN DIVERSE CULTURAL GROUPS
25. Conducting Ethical Research and Evaluation in Underserved Communities - Katrina Bledsoe and Rodney Hopson
26. Indigenous African-Centered Ethics: Contesting and Complementing Dominant Models - Bagele Chilisa
27. Research Ethics and Sensitive Behaviors: Underground Economy - Divya Sharma
28. Epistemological Domination: Social Science Research Ethics in Aotearoa - Helen Moewaka Barnes, Tim McCreanor, Shane Edwards, and Belinda Borell
29. An Ethical Agenda in Disability Research: Rhetoric or Reality? - Colin Barnes
30. LGBTQ: Protecting Vulnerable Subjects in All Studies - Sarah Dodd
31. Involving Minors in Research: Ethics and Law Within Multicultural Settings - Luis Vargas and Margaret E. Montoya
32. Ethical Research With Older Adults - Karen Szala-Meneok
SECTION SIX: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
33. Research Ethics in Transnational Spaces - Robert Stake and Fazal Rizvi
34. Privacy and New Technologies: The Limits of Traditional Research Ethics - Nicholas C. Burbules
35. Graduate Training in Responsible Conduct of Social Science Research: The Role of Mentors and Departmental Climate - Celia B. Fisher, Frederick J. Wertz, and Sabrina J. Goodman
36. Social Research Attuned to Deliberative Democracy - Kenneth Howe and Heather MacGillivary
37. Frontiers in Social Research Ethics: Fertile Ground for Evolution - Pauline E. Ginsberg and Donna M. Mertens
An Ethical Agenda in Disability Research - Julianne Newton
Conducting Ethical Research and Evaluation in Underserved Communities - Julianne Newton
Covenantal Ethics and Action Research - Julianne Newton
Critical Race Theory: Ethics and Dimensions of Diversity in Research - Julianne Newton
Cultivating Self as Responsive Instrument: Working the Boundaries and Borderlands for Ethical Border-Crossings - Julianne Newton
Epistemological Domination - Julianne Newton
Ethical Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychology - Julianne Newton
Ethical Perspectives in Program Evaluation - Julianne Newton
Ethical Practices in Qualitative Research - Julianne Newton
Ethical Research with Older Adults - Julianne Newton
Ethnography: Constitutive Practice and Research Ethics - Julianne Newton
Experiments, Quasi-experiments, and Ethics - Julianne Newton
Feminist Perspectives on Research Ethics - Julianne Newton
Frontiers in Social Research Ethics: Fertile Ground for Evolution - Julianne Newton
Governmental Regulation in Social Science - Julianne Newton
Graduate Training in Responsible Conduct of Social Science Research - Julianne Newton
Indigenous African-Centered Ethics: Contestin and Complementing Dominant Models - Julianne Newton
Involving Youth in Research within complex cultural settings - Julianne Newton
LGBTQ: Protecting vulnerable subjects in all studies - Sarah-Jane Dodd
Maintaining Indigenous Voices - Fiona Cram
Partnership Ethics - Linda Silka
Philosophy, Ethics and the Disability Community - Martin Sullivan
Privacy and New Technologies - Nicholas Burbules
Research Ethics and Peace Making - Colin Irwin
Research Ethics and Sensitive Behaviors - Divya Sharma
Research Ethics in the Postmodern Context - Joshua Clegg, Brent Slife
Research Ethics in Transnational Spaces - Robert Stake, Fazal Rizvi
Researching Ourselves Back to Life: Taking Control of the Research Agenda in Indian Country - Joan LaFrance, Cheryl Crazy Bull
Social Research Attuned to Deliverative Democracy - Kenneth Howe, Heather MacGillivary
Social Science Research Ethics: Historical and Philosophical Issues - Richard Kitchener
The Ethics of Data Archiving: Issues from Four Perspectives - Merry Bullock
The Ethics of the Researcher-Subject Relationship: Experiences from the Field - P. Gabo Ntseane
The Role of Institutional Review Boards Ethics: Now You See Them, Now You Don't - Richard Speiglman, Patricia Spear
Transformative Research and Ethics - Donna Mertens, Heidi Holmes
Use and Misuse of Quantitative Methods: Data Collection, Calculation, and Presentation - Bruce Brown, Dawson Hedges
Visual Representation of People and Information: Translating Lives into Numbers, Words, and Images as Research Data - Julianne Newton

Über Autor(innen)

Mertens, Donna M.
Donna M. Mertens is Professor Emeritus, Department of Education, at Gallaudet University. She taught research methods and program evaluation to deaf and hearing students at the MA and PhD levels for over 30 years. She now teaches courses and professional development workshops around the world.
She conducts research and evaluation studies on such topics as improvement of special education services in international settings, planning for the inclusion of students with disabilities in neighborhood schools, enhancing the educational experiences of students with disabilities, preventing sexual abuse in residential schools for deaf students, improving access to the court systems for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, and improving the preparation of teachers of the deaf through appropriate use of instructional technology. Her research focuses on improving methods of inquiry by integrating the perspectives of those who have experienced oppression in our society. She draws on the writings of feminists, racial and ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities, as well as Indigenous peoples who have addressed the issues of power and oppression and their implications for research methodology.
Dr. Mertens has made numerous presentations at the meetings of the American Educational Research Association, American Evaluation Association, Australasian Evaluation Society, Association for College Educators of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, International Sociological Association, Mixed Methods International Research Association, American Psychological Association, African Evaluation Association, Canadian Evaluation Society, Visitors Studies Association, and other organizations that explore these themes. She served as president and board member of the American Evaluation Association from 1997 to 2002 and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation, 2002–2003. She served as editor for the Journal of Mixed Methods Research 2009-2014.
Her publications include four edited volumes, Indigenous Pathways to Social Research (coedited with Fiona Cram and Bagele Chilisa, 2013), Handbook of Social Research Ethics (coedited with Pauline Ginsberg, 2009), Creative Ideas for Teaching Evaluation (1989), and Research and Inequality (coedited with Carole Truman and Beth Humphries, 2000), and several authored books, including Mixed Methods Design in Evaluation (2018), Program Evaluation: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd ed.) (with Amy Wilson, 2018), Transformative Research and Evaluation (2009), Research and Evaluation Methods in Special Education (coauthored with John McLaughlin, 2004), and Parents and Their Deaf Children (coauthored with Kay Meadow-Orlans and Marilyn Sass Lehrer, 2003). She also publishes many chapters and articles in edited volumes, encyclopedias, handbooks, and journals, such as Journal of Mixed Methods Research, Qualitative Social Work, Eye on Psi Chi, Educational Researcher, International Journal of Mixed Methods Research, New Directions for Program Evaluation, American Journal of Evaluation, American Annals of the Deaf, Studies in Educational Evaluation, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Ginsberg, Pauline E.
Pauline Ginsberg (PhD, Syracuse University, Social Psychology) is Professor of Psychology, Utica College, Utica, NY, and winner of the college’s Clark Award, given to the faculty members at the rank of professor who have an outstanding record of professional activity. Over the past 23 years, she has taught undergraduate courses in introductory psychology, statistics, program evaluation, social psychology, group dynamics, and adolescent development, as well as a variety of seminars. In anthropology, she has taught culture and personality. As an adjunct, she taught a course in quasi-experimental design and program evaluation at the graduate level at Syracuse University. In 1989-90 she taught at the graduate level at the University of Nairobi’s Department of Psychiatry and returned to the University of Nairobi in 2002 as a Fulbright lecturer to teach undergraduates in the Department of Psychology. In all of these courses, research ethics has been a substantive topic, particularly so in those that involved preparation of a research proposal and/or an actual research component. While the ethical practices of experimental psychology are connected to quantitative research methods, Ginsberg’s own research and that of some of her students has also employed mixed and qualitative methods. Moreover, independent research and research undertaken with collaborators abroad has introduced a practical education in cross-cultural research practices. Ginsberg also served on the Utica College IRB for eleven years, including 10 years as chairperson. As a volunteer, she has assisted community agency formation of research policy. Ginsberg is a founding member and past co-president of the American Evaluation Association’s International and Cross-Cultural Evaluation Topical Interest Group and past president of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society.