Quiz 4

A  A community sociologist hired by a large corporation agrees NOT to publish an article that shows the corporation has had a negative impact on the local economy.

B  An environmental sociologist agrees to include questionaire items on a survey that will shed a “positive” light on an environmental organization in exchange for access to study the members of the organization.

C  A medical sociologist working for a drug company refuses to conduct a satisfaction study on patients taking an experimental drug selected by the drug companya. .

D  A social scientist working for a local school district does NOT report findings that show a decrease in student language comprehension after the school district implements a new language comprehension program.

A  newsmagazines

B  peer reviewed scholarly journals

C  popular magazines

D  newspapers

A  researchers studying public settings (malls, stores, street corners, etc.) do not need to d. notify subjects that they are being studied, because there is no expectation of privacy in public settings.

B  researchers need to get permission from respondents to conduct an interview with a member of the opposite sex.

C  a researcher uses deception in order to study a social phenomenon.

D  researchers, when possible, must notify subjects that their participation is voluntary and that they can refuse to participate without penalty.

A  the Amnesty International Code of 1975.

B  the League of Nations Charter of 1919.

C  the Nuremberg Trial of Nazi war crimes in 1946-47.

D  the 1964 Civil Rights Act. 

A  do not create new inequalities.

B  do not cause physical harm.

C  avoid causing psychological abuse or stress.

D  do not place subjects in legal jeopardy.

A  Deception can be ethically used if the researcher can guarantee that subjects will never have knowledge that they had been part of a study.

B  Deception is completely unacceptable and is considered taboo amongst social scientists.

C  Deception is fully acceptable and is not considered unethical. 

D  Deception can be ethically used only if it is essential to the research, where other methods of data collection would yield tainted unusable data.

A  protecting the privacy of respondents and confidentiality of data

B  covert observation without informed consent

C  protecting the research subjects from legal jeopardy

D  all of the above were involved 

A  It ensures that research is methodologically sound and scientific.

B  It lobbies for more research money from government and private agencies. 

C  It ensures that researchers do not misuse money given to them for research.

D  It makes sure that research involving humans is carried out ethically.

A  the ethics enforcement committee that strictly monitors the research of social scientists.

B  fear of lawsuits against researchers by subjects.

C  a researcher’s personal moral code and the norms of the scientific community.

D  the strict laws and regulations outlined by the federal government.

A  when funding agencies give the “go ahead” to begin the research that is being funded

B  getting permission from other researchers to use non-random sampling

C  getting permission to talk to respondents about their sexual behaviors 

D  getting permission to conduct the interview after having given the respondent some information about research/interview