The Handbook of Social Research Ethics is the first comprehensive volume of its kind to offer a deeper understanding of the history, theory, philosophy, and implementation of applied social research ethics.

The Handbook of Social Research Ethics is the first comprehensive volume of its kind to offer a deeper understanding of the history, theory, philosophy, and implementation of applied social research ethics. Editors Donna M. Mertens and Pauline Ginsberg bring together eminent, international scholars across the social and behavioral sciences and education to address the ethical issues that arise in the theory and practice of research within the technologically advancing and culturally complex world in which we live. In addition, this volume examines the ethical dilemmas that arise in the relationship between research practice and social justice issues.

Key Features

• Situates the ethical concerns in the practice of social science research in historical and epistemological contexts 
• Explores the philosophical roots of ethics from the perspectives of Kant, J.S. Mill, Hegel, and others 
• Provides an overview and comparison of ethical regulations across disciplines, governments, and additional contexts such as IRBs, program evaluation, and more 
• Examines specific ethical issues that arise in traditional methods and methodologies 
• Addresses ethical concerns within a variety of diverse, cultural contexts

Intended Audience

This reference is an invaluable resource for university faculty, researchers, ethicists, IRB members, social science practitioners, graduate students, and program evaluators throughout the social and behavioral sciences.

SECTION ONE: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
1. Social Science Research Ethics: Historical and Philosophical Issues - Karen S. Kitchener and Richard F. Kitchener
2. Research Ethics in the Postmodern Context - Joshua W. Clegg and Brent Slife
3. Feminist Perspectives on Research Ethics - Mary M. Brabeck and Kalina M. Brabeck
4. Critical Race Theory: Ethics and Dimensions of Diversity in Research - Veronica G. Thomas
5. Philosophy, Ethics, and the Disability Community - Martin Sullivan
6. Transformative Research and Ethics - Donna M. Mertens, Raychelle Harris and Heidi Holmes
SECTION TWO: PERSPECTIVES ON ETHICAL REGULATION
7. Governmental Regulation in Social Science - Linda Mabry
8. The Role of Institutional Review Boards: Ethics: Now You See Them, Now You Don′t - Richard Speiglman and Patricia Spear
9. Researching Ourselves Back to Life: Taking Control of the Research Agenda in Indian Country - Joan LaFrance and Cheryl Crazy Bull
10. Ethical Practices in Qualitative Research - Yvonna Lincoln
11. Ethical Perspectives in Program Evaluation - Amanda Wolf, David Turner, and Kathleen Toms
SECTION THREE: ETHICS AND RESEARCH METHODS
12. On Ethics in Social Science Research - Richard Schwartz
13. Experiments, Quasi-Experiments, and Ethics - Mel Mark and Chris Gamble
14. The Ethics of Data Archiving: Issues From Four Perspectives - David Johnson and Merry Bullock
15. Ethnography: Constitutive Practice and Research Ethics - Anne Ryen
16. Covenantal Ethics and Action Research: Exploring a Common Foundation for Social Research - Mary Brydon Miller
17. Research Ethics and Peacemaking - Colin Irwin
SECTION FOUR: ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH PRACTICE
18. Cultivating Self as Responsive Instrument: Working the Boundaries and Borderlands for Ethical Border Crossings - Hazel Symonette
19. The Ethics of the Researcher-Subject Relationship: Experiences From the Field - Peggy Gabo Ntseane
20. Maintaining Indigenous Voices - Fiona Cram
21. Ethical Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychology - David Matsumoto and Carolyn Jones
22. Partnership Ethics - Linda Silka
23. Visual Representation of People and Information: Translating Lives Into Numbers, Words, and Images as Research Data - Julianne H. Newton
24. Use and Misuse of Quantitative Methods: Data Collection, Calculation, and Presentation - Bruce Brown and Dawson Hedges
SECTION FIVE: ETHICS WITHIN DIVERSE CULTURAL GROUPS
25. Conducting Ethical Research and Evaluation in Underserved Communities - Katrina Bledsoe and Rodney Hopson
26. Indigenous African-Centered Ethics: Contesting and Complementing Dominant Models - Bagele Chilisa
27. Research Ethics and Sensitive Behaviors: Underground Economy - Divya Sharma
28. Epistemological Domination: Social Science Research Ethics in Aotearoa - Helen Moewaka Barnes, Tim McCreanor, Shane Edwards, and Belinda Borell
29. An Ethical Agenda in Disability Research: Rhetoric or Reality? - Colin Barnes
30. LGBTQ: Protecting Vulnerable Subjects in All Studies - Sarah Dodd
31. Involving Minors in Research: Ethics and Law Within Multicultural Settings - Luis Vargas and Margaret E. Montoya
32. Ethical Research With Older Adults - Karen Szala-Meneok
SECTION SIX: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
33. Research Ethics in Transnational Spaces - Robert Stake and Fazal Rizvi
34. Privacy and New Technologies: The Limits of Traditional Research Ethics - Nicholas C. Burbules
35. Graduate Training in Responsible Conduct of Social Science Research: The Role of Mentors and Departmental Climate - Celia B. Fisher, Frederick J. Wertz, and Sabrina J. Goodman
36. Social Research Attuned to Deliberative Democracy - Kenneth Howe and Heather MacGillivary
37. Frontiers in Social Research Ethics: Fertile Ground for Evolution - Pauline E. Ginsberg and Donna M. Mertens
An Ethical Agenda in Disability Research - Julianne Newton
Conducting Ethical Research and Evaluation in Underserved Communities - Julianne Newton
Covenantal Ethics and Action Research - Julianne Newton
Critical Race Theory: Ethics and Dimensions of Diversity in Research - Julianne Newton
Cultivating Self as Responsive Instrument: Working the Boundaries and Borderlands for Ethical Border-Crossings - Julianne Newton
Epistemological Domination - Julianne Newton
Ethical Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychology - Julianne Newton
Ethical Perspectives in Program Evaluation - Julianne Newton
Ethical Practices in Qualitative Research - Julianne Newton
Ethical Research with Older Adults - Julianne Newton
Ethnography: Constitutive Practice and Research Ethics - Julianne Newton
Experiments, Quasi-experiments, and Ethics - Julianne Newton
Feminist Perspectives on Research Ethics - Julianne Newton
Frontiers in Social Research Ethics: Fertile Ground for Evolution - Julianne Newton
Governmental Regulation in Social Science - Julianne Newton
Graduate Training in Responsible Conduct of Social Science Research - Julianne Newton
Indigenous African-Centered Ethics: Contestin and Complementing Dominant Models - Julianne Newton
Involving Youth in Research within complex cultural settings - Julianne Newton
LGBTQ: Protecting vulnerable subjects in all studies - Sarah-Jane Dodd
Maintaining Indigenous Voices - Fiona Cram
Partnership Ethics - Linda Silka
Philosophy, Ethics and the Disability Community - Martin Sullivan
Privacy and New Technologies - Nicholas Burbules
Research Ethics and Peace Making - Colin Irwin
Research Ethics and Sensitive Behaviors - Divya Sharma
Research Ethics in the Postmodern Context - Joshua Clegg, Brent Slife
Research Ethics in Transnational Spaces - Robert Stake, Fazal Rizvi
Researching Ourselves Back to Life: Taking Control of the Research Agenda in Indian Country - Joan LaFrance, Cheryl Crazy Bull
Social Research Attuned to Deliverative Democracy - Kenneth Howe, Heather MacGillivary
Social Science Research Ethics: Historical and Philosophical Issues - Richard Kitchener
The Ethics of Data Archiving: Issues from Four Perspectives - Merry Bullock
The Ethics of the Researcher-Subject Relationship: Experiences from the Field - P. Gabo Ntseane
The Role of Institutional Review Boards Ethics: Now You See Them, Now You Don′t - Richard Speiglman, Patricia Spear
Transformative Research and Ethics - Donna Mertens, Heidi Holmes
Use and Misuse of Quantitative Methods: Data Collection, Calculation, and Presentation - Bruce Brown, Dawson Hedges
Visual Representation of People and Information: Translating Lives into Numbers, Words, and Images as Research Data - Julianne Newton