Elaborate on the ethics that guide research in sociology by providing three main ethical guidelines that researchers must follow. For one of these guidelines, provide an example of a study that violated this rule, and explain the concrete details of the study and how it violated ethics.
What will be an ideal response?
Varies but should include the rise of concern about ethics because of horrible acts by the Nazis during World War II in the name of medical experimentation. Other breaches included research at Tuskegee Institute where black men could contract and endure suffering through syphilis without being given available treatment that would have relieved their suffering to learn about the progression of the disease. Because of these breaches in ethics, the Nuremberg Code was written to spell out directives for ethical experiments involving human subjects. Students could cite physical harm (Tuskegee), psychological harm (Milgram experiment, Zimbardo prison experiment as examples), witnessing illegal acts (Venkatesh's gang research), or violating trust/deception (Laud Humphreys' research on homosexuality).
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