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Ethical issues when
conducting ethnographic
research
- Informed consent
- Ensuring you have
permission from
participants to include
them in study
- Consent forms
- Contracts
- Explain every aspect of
what they will be expected
to do
- Confidentiality and
anonymity
- Keeping personal details
secret so their identity
cannot be known
- Not including names
- Only askign for
details that are
essential for study
- Anticipating harms
- Is potential harm too high?
- Is it worth the harm for
the experiment?
- Conducting pseudo
controleld experiments
with no risks
- Will I be in danger?
- Interfering with culture
e.g. influencing the views
of females: danger
- Protecting
research
participants and
honouring trust
- Will being part of the study put
them in danger?
- Learn the culture
- Do not force them to give information
- Respect rules
- Become trustworthy in their eyes
- More llikely to give information
- Show you do not mean harm
- Join in with culture; help with work
- Deception
- Covering up tue
intentions of study
- May be necessary for
covert observations
- Will this put me in danger if I am discovered?
- Produce more natural observations
- Avoid Hawthorne effect
- Right to wirthdraw
- Making participants
aware they can leave
from study at any time
- Briefing before study starts
- Ethical regulations
- Learn before leave
- Association of Social Anthropolgoists
- Commonwealth Code of practise
- Participation in illegal/immoral activities
- Gang member for a day
- May lose trust
- Becoming involved in problems of people
- Leaving Western beliefs behind