Ethics in Sociology

What is Ethical Research in Sociology?

• That principles such as confidentiality, anonymity, informed consent, and honesty are ignored in order to get results

• The following of written codes of conduct that are designed to help sociologists when they plan and design their research.

• An old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

• All of the above

Spot the odd one out

• Integrity

• Fairness

• Results

• Principles

Consent is a crucial part of ethical research

• True

• False

Which of the following can impact on the nature of ethics and consent?

• Class

• Race

• Gender

• All of the above

Is there a difference between ethical and legal?

• Yes

• No

All research must have pre-approved consent to be seen as legitimate

• True

• False

Who was Henrietta Lacks?

• A woman who spent time at a hospital that was one of only a few that provided medical care to Black people.

• an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research.

• one of a diverse group of patients who unknowingly donated cells at Hopkins in 1951.

• All of the above

BONUS QUESTION: What did the man in the Russian Sleep Experiment reply when asked "What are you?"

• We're the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you're asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life. We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't.

• I am perishing already--I am failing--I am passing away. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!

• We are you. We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your deepest animal mind. We are what you hide from in your beds every night. We are what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread.

• We are nothing. If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.” “Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.” “The point is there ain't no point.