Research Considerations
Research considerations in social sciences encompass various factors that researchers must take into account when designing and conducting studies. These considerations may include ethical guidelines, research methodologies, data collection techniques, and the potential impact of the research on individuals and communities. By carefully addressing these considerations, researchers can enhance the validity and reliability of their findings while minimizing potential harm.
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eBook - ePubAQA Psychology A Level Paper Three: Issues and Debates
Issues and Debates
- Phil Gorman(Author)
- 2020(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...However, it could be that we still have a duty to carry on with such research in spite of the ethical implications, as long as we encourage due diligence in the planning of such work. Sieber and Stanley (1988) have suggested that, whilst it is important to consider the ethics of sensitive research carefully, this should not be used as an excuse not to do it, because sensitive research deals with some of the most pressing issues facing society today. There are four aspects of the scientific research process that raise ethical implications in socially sensitive research according to Sieber and Stanley (1988): • The research question : The researcher should consider their research question carefully. Asking questions such as ‘Are there racial differences in IQ?’ or ‘Is intelligence inherited?’ may be damaging to members of a particular group. • The methodology used : The researcher needs to consider the treatment of the participants and their right to confidentiality and anonymity, e.g. if a participant admits to committing a crime, should the researcher maintain confidentiality? • The institutional context : The researcher should be mindful of how the data is going to be used and consider who is funding the research. If the research is funded by a private institution or organisation, why are they funding the research and how do they intend to use the findings? • Interpretation and application of findings : Finally, the researcher needs to consider how their findings might be interpreted and applied in the real world. Could their data or results be used to inform policy? Think! Are there certain questions that you simply shouldn’t ask, or is everything open to questioning? Are some methods more socially sensitive than others, e.g...
eBook - ePub- Valerie Malhotra Bentz, Jeremy J. Shapiro(Authors)
- 1998(Publication Date)
- SAGE Publications, Inc(Publisher)
...You should also reflect personally on the psychological, intellectual, and social meanings of your research interests and your personal ways of engaging with ideas, data, methodologies, and decisions. And because inquiry and research in the human and social sciences occur within a number of divergent cultures of inquiry and research traditions, you should work at comparing and critically evaluating several cultures of inquiry and the research traditions in which they are embodied in your area of intellectual interest or professional work. Finally, before engaging in a major research project, whether a thesis or dissertation research or research as part of your work, you should develop specialized competence in the methods that are appropriate to its question, including current trends and methodological controversies. As we said, this volume is an introduction to the general cultures of inquiry and not to the specific and detailed research techniques of which they consist. Activities Think of two very different kinds of skills you have learned in your lifetime—for example, riding a bicycle and cooking. How did the “culture of learning” about each skill differ? What elements in each learning process were the same? Becoming a Researcher as Socialization into a Community Thinking about research and science has changed over the past generation in major ways. The most important change has been the shift to thinking of disciplined inquiry and scientific research, whether in the natural sciences, the social and human sciences, or the humanities, as social processes. Previously, research was often thought of and described as the activity of a solitary individual—the scientist, researcher, or scholar—facing reality or the world or nature and applying a body of universally valid scientific methods to it...
eBook - ePubResearching Lived Experience
Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy
- Max van Manen(Author)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...It may be less important to write a detailed methodological excursus of the study until after the actual study has been completed. A certain openness is required in human science research that allows for choosing directions and exploring techniques, procedures and sources that are not always foreseeable at the outset of a research project. Similarly, a philosophical treatise about the history or nature of hermeneutics or phenomenology in general may be less helpful for making a study acceptable to an external committee than a carefully initiated discussion on the phenomenology of the topic of the proposed study. Effects and Ethics of Human Science Research The tasks and challenges implicit in human experiences are varied. These tasks may be to educate school children, to help abused youngsters, to minister the sick, to give psychological care to those who grieve, to mobilize the politically disadvantaged, and so forth. The argument in the previous chapter has been that pedagogical research becomes truncated from its own life if it fails to connect with the pedagogic challenges which inhere in the human experiences to which it has oriented itself. Pedagogical research cannot step outside the moral values that grant pedagogy its meaning. At the very least the pedagogically oriented human science researcher needs to be aware of the following: (1) The research may have certain effects on the people with whom the research is concerned and who will be interested in the phenomenological work. They may feel discomfort, anxiety, false hope, superficiality, guilt, self-doubt, irresponsibility—but also hope, increased awareness, moral stimulation, insight, a sense of liberation, a certain thoughtfulness, and so on. (2) There are possible effects of the research methods on the institutions in which the research is conducted...
