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Walking the Tightrope: Ethical Issues for Qualitative Researchers
Will C. Van Den Hoonaard
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Description for Walking the Tightrope: Ethical Issues for Qualitative Researchers
Hardcover. 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: 233 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
494g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802036834
SKU
V9780802036834
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About Will C. Van Den 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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