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Recognizing that ethical issues are no more endemic to one research design than to another, LeCompte and Schensul open Book 6 with a short history of formal oversight for human research and address the formal ethical responsibilities incumbent upon researchers. Next, they consider how informal or "everyday" ethics affect researchers' daily interactions in the field. In recognition of the shift toward team-based field research, the authors pay special attention to ethics related to collaborative research. The book concludes with an examination of new challenges and issues ranging from new field realities to the ethics of interpreting research results. As with all books in the series, this title features case studies, checklists, key points to remember, and additional resources to consult; the result is a uniquely detailed and eminently useful introduction to the ethical conduct of ethnography. -- from back cover.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Ethics and ethnography
• What are ethics?
• What are research ethics?
• Ethics in social science research
• What is a human subject?
• Ethics and epistemology: Do ethnographers face greater ethical challenges than other types of researcher?
• Confronting the stereotype of scientific neutrality
• Formal research ethics and everyday research ethics
• Chapter 2: The evolution of formal concerns about and ethical principles governing human research
• The origins of formal oversight
• Medical research and risk to human subjects
• Social science research and risks to human subjects
• Disciplinary codes of ethics and the problems of enforcement
• The Belmont Report 1978
• The Belmont principles
• Chapter 3: Formal and semiformal responsibilites
• Semiformal responsibilities
• Formal contractual responsibilities
• When is IRB or IEC approval necessary?
• Issues of particular concern to IRBs and IECs

• Levels of reviews
• Components of an IRB proposal
• The power of institutional review boards and institutional ethics committees
• Coping with multiple IRBs
• Chapter 4: Informal ethics: The implications of researcher roles and characteristics
• The embedded contexts and multiple roles of ethnographic work
• Being a learner
• Creating a field identity
• Coping with relationships in the field: Personal characteristics, asymmetrical relationships, and positionality
• Personal friendships in the field
• Chapter 5: Informal ethics: Long-term relationships and reasonable responsibilities
• Introduction: Feasible and possible responsibilities
• Coping with associations in the field: Affiliations and sponsorships
• Maintaining good relationships
• Coresearchers and research partners
• Negotiating an exit and leaving the field
• Reciprocity and feedback
• Dissemination and disposition of data
• Assuring program continuation
• Chapter 6: Ethical issues in ethnographic teamwork and community-based research
• Ethical considerations in intrateam interactions
• Ethical considerations in team interaction with study communities/ sites and participants
• Protecting the study community
• Chapter 7: Going beyond Belmont: New issues and challenges
• Challenges to IRB "Surveillance" and control
• Contesting Western epistemological and ontological hegemony
• Redefining key terms in the twenty-first century
• Obtaining consent
• Exposure to risks and new forms of vulnerability
• Technology and retrievability of information
• Ethics and the consequences of interpretation
• Chapter 8: The role of reflection in ethnographic research
• Introduction: What is reflection?
• Identifying subjectivities
• Positionality and power
• The risks of the "other"
• Taking stock.

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Author/Creator:

LeCompte, Margaret Diane , author

Contributors:

Schensul, Jean J. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Ethics in ethnography: a mixed methods approach [by LeCompte, M.D.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Ethics in ethnography [by LeCompte, M.D.] (Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield, [2015] — ISBN 9780759122093; LCCN 2014043349; OCLC Number 900194099)

Related Series:

Ethnographer's toolkit (2010); [volume] 6

Subjects:

Ethnology — Methodology

Ethnology — Research

Ethnology — Moral and ethical aspects

Ethnology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 377 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GN345 .L424 2015eb

ISBNs:

9780759122109 (electronic bk.)
0759122105 (electronic bk.)
9780759122093 (paperback, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
0759122091 (paperback, alkaline paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

904281334