基本説明
Explores key ethical dilemmas - including research boundaries, informed consent, participation, rapport and analysis - within the context of a rapidly changing research environment.
Full Description
This fresh, confident second edition expands its focus on the theoretical and practical aspects of doing qualitative research in light of new ethical dilemmas facing researchers today.
In a climate of significant social and technological change, researchers must respond to increased ethical regulation and scrutiny of research. New sources, types of data and modes of accessing participants are all challenging and reconfiguring traditional ideas of the research relationship.
This engaging textbook explores key ethical dilemmas - including research boundaries, informed consent, participation, rapport and analysis - within the context of a rapidly changing research environment. The book effectively covers the ethical issues related to the data collection process, helping readers to address the ethical considerations relevant to their research.
This fully updated new edition:
- Maps the changing and increasingly technology-reliant aspects of research relationships and practices
- Provides researchers with guidance through practical examples, enabling those engaged in qualitative research to question and navigate in ethical ways
This book is essential reading for all those engaged in qualitative research across the social sciences.
Contents
Introduction to the second edition - Maxine Birch, Tina Miller, Melanie Mauthner and Julie Jessop
Ethics and feminist research: theory and practice - Rosalind Edwards and Melanie Mauthner
Reconfiguring research relationships: regulation, new technologies and doing ethical research - Tina Miller
The ethics of intention: research as a political tool - Val Gillies and Pam Alldred
Consenting to what? Issues of access, gate-keeping and 'informed' consent - Tina Miller and Linda Bell
Divided loyalties, divided expectations: research ethics, professional and occupational responsibilities - Linda Bell and Linda Nutt
Encouraging participation: ethics and responsibilities - Maxine Birch and Tina Miller
'Doing rapport' and the ethics of 'faking friendship' - Jean Duncombe and Julie Jessop
Knowing responsibly: ethics, feminist epistemologies and methodologies - Andrea Doucet and Natasha S. Mauthner
Eliciting research accounts: re/producing modern subjects? - Pam Alldred and Val Gillies
'Accounting for our part of the entangled webs we weave': ethical and moral issues in digital data sharing - Natasha S. Mauthner
Conclusions: navigating ethical dilemmas and new digital horizons - Melanie Mauthner, Maxine Birch, Tina Miller and Julie Jessop
