Walking the Tightrope : : Ethical Issues for Qualitative Researchers / / ed. by Will C. van den Hoonaard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abler, Patricia A.,; Abler, Peter,; Altheide, David L.,; Johnson, John M.,; Kellner, Florence,; Kitchin, Heather A.,; Mills, Erin,; Nichol, Gillian,; O\x27neill, Patrick,; Pearce, Melanie,; Snyder, Linda,; Stratton, Mary,; Thompson, S. Anthony,; Ungar, Michael,; Waruszynski, Barbara Theresa,; Weinberg, Merlinda,
• HerausgeberIn: van den Hoonaard, Will C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

From physical settings such as high schools and maternity homes to the unfolding 'virtual' terrain of cyberspace, social science research projects are subject to increasingly restrictive ethics-testing. Are formal ethics research guidelines congruent with the aims and methodology of inductive and qualitative social research? Using the experiences of sixteen Canadian, American, and British researchers, this collection of essays explores a range of answers to the question.The sixteen contributors challenge the 'bio-medical' basis of research-ethics review policies in the authors' three national contexts, suggesting that guidelines were created with quantitative work in mind, and actually impede or interrupt work which is not hypothesis-driven 'hard science.' Through examination of a range of ethics issues ? confidentiality, especially sensitive settings, questions of 'voice' and the complex new challenges of ethical Internet research ? the authors test the appropriateness of current ethical review protocols.Scholars and practitioners in the fields of social work, education and sociology will find the essays useful and stimulating, as will teachers and students of qualitative research methodologies in fields as diverse as medicine, comparative literature and business studies. These papers, none of which is previously published, raise disruptive questions with an engaging urgency of manner.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Ethical Norming and Qualitative Research -- 1. Good Intentions and Awkward Outcomes: Ethical Gatekeeping in Field Research -- 2. Yet Another Coming Crisis? Coping with Guidelines from the Tri-Council -- 3. Do University Lawyers and the Police Define Research Values? -- 4. Challenging the System: Rethinking Ethics Review of Social Research in Britain's National Health Service -- 5. Reflections on Professional Ethics -- 6. Confidentiality and Anonymity: Promises and Practices -- 7. Biting the Hand That Feeds You, and Other Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork -- 8. My Research Friend? My Friend the Researcher? My Friend, My Researcher? Mis/Informed Consent and People with Developmental Disabilities -- 9. Hazel the Dental Assistant and the Research Dilemma of (Re) presenting a Life Story: The Clash of Narratives -- 10. Breaking In: Compromises in Participatory Field Research within Closed Institutions -- 11. The Harmony of Resistance: Qualitative Research and Ethical Practice in Social Work -- 12. Pace of Technological Change: Battling Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research -- 13. The Tri-Council on Cyberspace: Insights, Oversights, and Extrapolations -- Some Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Index