Ethics and Values in Social Research [Hardcover]

Ethical responsibility has intellectual and practical implications for social researchers. This book explores a range of issues, theories and questions, enabling readers to reflect upon, understand and critique these with confidence. With helpful examples and a glossary of terms, it is essential reading for new and experienced researchers alike.Introduction: Themes and Debates.- Social Values and Social Research: The Collective Good, Life and Liberty, and Reason.- Social Research and Professional Codes of Ethics.- The Intellectual and Philosophical Underpinnings of Social Research.- The values of the Researcher and Evaluation Research.- Critical Approaches in Social Research: Critical Realism and Value Standpoint Social Research.- Making it Personal: Action Research, Practitioner Research and Self-reflexive Practice.- Social Research and Social Policy.- Concluding Remarks.
PAUL RANSOME was Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wales, Swansea. He wrote and contributed to a number of successful titles, including: Work, Consumption and Culture (2005) and Social Theory: A Basic Tool Kit (2003).
Written to appeal across the social sciences for any student doing research regardless of discipline
Ethics in research is an increasingly important area with more time being devoted to it in methods teaching
Openminded and discursive style suits variety of teaching styles and lecturer preferences