Methods Doing Social Research 4th Edition by Winston Jackson -Test Bank

Chapter 11. Ethical Issues

MC 11-1

Conflicting pressure in doing social scientific research involves:

a. the compromise between researcher interest and scientific interests
b. what represents the ideal versus the ethical in research design
c. pressures from society versus pressures from colleagues
d. the perceived need to publish results (valid or not)

Answer: B
Difficulty: Challenging
Page: 304

MC 11-2

Milgram’s research concerned:

a. observation of police officers at work
b. observation of homosexuals
c. shock treatment
d. washroom behaviour

Answer: C
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 310-13

MC 11-3

Tearoom Trade raises which of the following ethical questions:

a. the extent to which respondents should be paid
b. the extent to which a researcher can withhold key information from respondents
c. the extent to which the police should be encouraged to participate in covert research
d. the extent to which social science can be considered to be offensive

Answer: B
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 323

MC 11-4

Within social science research, withholding information refers to:

a. the same process as lying
b. not disclosing the full details of one’s study
c. employing fictitious data
d. covert participant observation

Answer: B
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 324

MC 11-5

Informed consent refers to:

a. informing subjects of the details of the study before they consent
b. informing subjects of the details of the study after they consent
c. not informing subjects at all
d. informing the funding agency of one’s research results before the funds have been awarded

Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 324

MC 11-6

The consequentialist view is similar to:

a. the social contract approach
b. the view that absolute moral principles should never be violated
c. the relativistic approach
d. a cost-benefit analysis

Answer: D
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 315

MC 11-7

The deontological view holds that:

a. the end justifies the means
b. there is no set of absolute moral principles
c. moral principles should never be broken
d. research is a social enterprise and should be judged as such

Answer: C
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 315

MC 11-8

Ethical rules and guidelines in the social sciences should be organized around which of the following themes:

a. the researcher’s ethical responsibility to respondents
b. the researcher’s responsibility to science
c. the researcher’s responsibility to society
d. all of the above

Answer: D
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 321

MC 11-9

Social researchers have special difficulties, not often faced by other scientists, due to:

a. the many possibly alternate interpretations of large sample sets
b. a “vested interest” in the results
c. the researcher is a member of that which he/she studies
d. all of the above
e. none of the above

Answer: D
Difficulty: Moderate
Page: 325

MC 11-10

Researchers should not:

a. use hidden codes to identify respondents later
b. pay interviewers by the interview
c. fail to make respondents aware of all of the research details, including the hypotheses
d. all of the above

Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 323