Seduction of Ethics
Transforming the Social Sciences
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2011
392 pages
978-1-4426-9452-1 (ISBN)
Description
Formal research-ethics committees in Canada now function as an industry, costing over thirty-five million dollars annually. The Seduction of Ethics argues that while ethics codes are alluring to the public, they fuel moral panic and increase demands for institutional accountability. Will C. van den Hoonaard explores the research-ethics review process itself by analysing the moral cosmology and practices of ethics committees regarding research and researchers.
The Seduction of Ethics also investigates how researchers have tailored their approaches in response to technical demands - leading social science disciplines to resemble each other more closely and lose the richness of their research. Van den Hoonaard reveals an idiosyncratic and inconsistent world in which researchers employ particular strategies of avoidance or partial or full compliance as they seek approval from ethics committees.
The Seduction of Ethics also investigates how researchers have tailored their approaches in response to technical demands - leading social science disciplines to resemble each other more closely and lose the richness of their research. Van den Hoonaard reveals an idiosyncratic and inconsistent world in which researchers employ particular strategies of avoidance or partial or full compliance as they seek approval from ethics committees.
Reviews / Votes
'The Seduction of Ethics is a powerful, combined-arms assault on the system of ethics review of the social sciences.' - Zachary M. Schrag (Contemporary Sociology; vol 41:05:2012) 'Van den Hoonaard offers a remarkable study from the methodological point of view... Hoonaard's contribution to the debate on approaches to ethical governance in the social sciences demarcates a new stage.'- Igor Gontcharov (Transnational legal Theory, vol 4:01:2013) 'The Seduction of Ethics is an easily-read volume suitable for students, professionals, and even lay readers...The logic is flawless, the data are compelling, and - above-all the reader is left with a sense that things can be changed.'
- Jim Thomas (Symbolic Interaction, Online - February 2014) 'Seduction of Ethics is grounded in a solid theoretical and conceptual framework. The logic is flawless, the data are compelling, and above all the reader is left with a sense that things can be changed.' - Jim Thomas (Symbolic Interaction, vol 37:02:2014)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
1 Figure
File size
1,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-9452-1 (9781442694521)
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University of Toronto Press
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Person
Will C. van den Hoonaard is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Figures and Tables
INTRODUCTION
Premise of The Seduction of Ethics
Ignorance and Scholarship
The Scholarship on the Metabolism of Research-Ethics Review
Conceptual Scheme
Research Methods
Outline of The Seduction of Ethics
AN ARCHEOLOGY OF RESEARCH-ETHICS REVIEW
Outside the Ethics Regime: What Drives the System of Ethics Review?
Inside the System: Institutionalization of Research-Ethics Review
THE CRITICISMS OF RESEARCH-ETHICS REVIEW
Does the Ethics Regime Offer an Inappropriate Model for Social Science Research?
Is Research Ethics Strangling Legitimate Research?
Does Ethics Review Curtail Academic Freedom?
Are Ethics Committees Bureaucracies?
Does Ethics Review Develop and Maintain the Hegemony of Ethics Committees?
Attempts to Negotiate the Two Worlds and Transcend the Criticisms: The Perspectives of Ethics Committees
WHAT IS THE NORMATIVE ETHICS FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL RESEARCHERS?
The 'Subject' in International and National Research-Ethics Codes
Bursting the Contemporary Ethics Bubble: Three Case Studies
STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF RESEARCH-ETHICS COMMITTEES
Ethics Committees as Part of the University
Membership
Jurisdictional Power and Independence
Workload
THE MORAL COSMOLOGY OF THE ETHICS-REVIEW WORLD
About Themselves
About Researchers
About Research Participants
PROCEDURAL ROUTINES: THE APPLICATION FORM AND THE CONSENT FORM
The Application Form
The Consent Form
THE MEETING: MAKING AGENDAS AND DECISIONS
Attendance and Membership
The Career of the Agenda
Paradigms and Perspectives that Shape the Conversation about Ethics
Making Decisions without Principles
AN IDIOSYNCRATIC AND INCONSISTENTWORLD: COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN REBS AND RESEARCHERS
Interpretation as the Basis of Idiosyncrasies and Inconsistencies
Communications to Researchers/Language of (Dis)approval
Content
Language
REB Communications inside the Larger Context of the Ethics Regime
THE UNDERLIFE OF RESEARCH-ETHICS REVIEW: PREPARING AN APPLICATION
The 'Hurt Perspective'
The Researcher's Moral Career
Warming up (or Not) to Submitting the Proposal
Preparing for the 'News'
SECONDARY ADJUSTMENTS BY RESEARCHERS
Reactions by Researchers to Ethics Reviews
Applying Secondary Adjustments
The Social Situation of Students in the Ethics-Review Process
THE BELEAGUERED METHODS
General Considerations about Redirecting Research
The Declining Use of Particular Methods
ON THEORY, TOPICS, AND FAVOURED METHODS
Acknowledgments
Figures and Tables
INTRODUCTION
Premise of The Seduction of Ethics
Ignorance and Scholarship
The Scholarship on the Metabolism of Research-Ethics Review
Conceptual Scheme
Research Methods
Outline of The Seduction of Ethics
AN ARCHEOLOGY OF RESEARCH-ETHICS REVIEW
Outside the Ethics Regime: What Drives the System of Ethics Review?
Inside the System: Institutionalization of Research-Ethics Review
THE CRITICISMS OF RESEARCH-ETHICS REVIEW
Does the Ethics Regime Offer an Inappropriate Model for Social Science Research?
Is Research Ethics Strangling Legitimate Research?
Does Ethics Review Curtail Academic Freedom?
Are Ethics Committees Bureaucracies?
Does Ethics Review Develop and Maintain the Hegemony of Ethics Committees?
Attempts to Negotiate the Two Worlds and Transcend the Criticisms: The Perspectives of Ethics Committees
WHAT IS THE NORMATIVE ETHICS FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL RESEARCHERS?
The 'Subject' in International and National Research-Ethics Codes
Bursting the Contemporary Ethics Bubble: Three Case Studies
STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF RESEARCH-ETHICS COMMITTEES
Ethics Committees as Part of the University
Membership
Jurisdictional Power and Independence
Workload
THE MORAL COSMOLOGY OF THE ETHICS-REVIEW WORLD
About Themselves
About Researchers
About Research Participants
PROCEDURAL ROUTINES: THE APPLICATION FORM AND THE CONSENT FORM
The Application Form
The Consent Form
THE MEETING: MAKING AGENDAS AND DECISIONS
Attendance and Membership
The Career of the Agenda
Paradigms and Perspectives that Shape the Conversation about Ethics
Making Decisions without Principles
AN IDIOSYNCRATIC AND INCONSISTENTWORLD: COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN REBS AND RESEARCHERS
Interpretation as the Basis of Idiosyncrasies and Inconsistencies
Communications to Researchers/Language of (Dis)approval
Content
Language
REB Communications inside the Larger Context of the Ethics Regime
THE UNDERLIFE OF RESEARCH-ETHICS REVIEW: PREPARING AN APPLICATION
The 'Hurt Perspective'
The Researcher's Moral Career
Warming up (or Not) to Submitting the Proposal
Preparing for the 'News'
SECONDARY ADJUSTMENTS BY RESEARCHERS
Reactions by Researchers to Ethics Reviews
Applying Secondary Adjustments
The Social Situation of Students in the Ethics-Review Process
THE BELEAGUERED METHODS
General Considerations about Redirecting Research
The Declining Use of Particular Methods
ON THEORY, TOPICS, AND FAVOURED METHODS
