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12%OFFWill C. Van Den . Ed(S): Hoonaard - Walking the Tightrope - 9780802085238 - V9780802085238
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Walking the Tightrope

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Description for Walking the Tightrope paperback. Are formal ethics research guidelines congruent with the aims and methodology of inductive and qualitative social research? Using the experiences of 16 Canadian, American, and British researchers, this collection explores answers to the question. Editor(s): Hoonaard, Will C. van den. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 366.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802085238
SKU
V9780802085238
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Ref
99-1

About Will C. Van Den . Ed(S): Hoonaard
Will C. van den Hoonaard is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick.

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