Ethics in Social Science Research: Becoming Culturally Responsive

Ethics in Social Science Research: Becoming Culturally Responsive provides a thorough grounding in research ethics, along with examples of real-world ethical dilemmas in working with vulnerable populations. Author Maria K. E. Lahman aims to help qualitative research students design ethically and culturally responsive research with communities that may be very different from their own. Throughout, compelling first person accounts of ethics in human research—both historical and contemporary—are highlighted and each chapter includes vignettes written by the author and her collaborators about real qualitative research projects.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments About the Author PART I. BECOMING ETHICALLY RESPONSIVE RESEARCHERS Chapter 1. Becoming Ethically Responsive Researchers: Introduction Federal and Discipline Human Research Ethics Adherence Developing Aspirational Ethics Book Organization Elements of the Text Chapter 2. Culturally Responsive Relational Reflexive Ethics in Research: The Three Rs Other in Research Vulnerable in Research Participant as Capable and Competent, Yet Vulnerable Creating an Aspirational Research Ethics Stance Why Create Your Own Ethical Stance? Exemplar of an Aspirational Ethics Stance Reflexive Questions Resources Chapter 3. Research Ethics History: Regulations and Beyond A Brief History of Contemporary Western Research Ethics Research Ethics Boards Research Ethics Boards (REBs) Reflexive Questions Resources Chapter 4. Research Pragmatics and Methodological Considerations Informed Consent Confidentiality Culturally Responsive Ethical Research Methodology Reflexive Questions Reflexive Course Experience Resources PART II. EXEMPLARS OF BECOMING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE ETHICAL RESEARCHERS Chapter 5. Ethical Research With Children: Always Othered? Image of a Child Contemporary Images of the Child Children as Other Nature of Adult Memory Researchers’ Methodological Positioning to Child Suggestions for Early Childhood Researchers Always Othered Reflexive Questions Reflexive Course Experience Resources Chapter 6. Ethical Research With People Who Immigrate: A Stranger in a Strange Land Humans: A Migratory Species Current Immigration Contexts Immigrants Authors as Immigrants The Research Contexts We Reflect Within People Who Are Undocumented Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery International Students: Sojourner Immigrants Ethical Considerations When Conducting Research With Immigrants Conclusion Reflexive Questions Reflexive Course Experience Resources Chapter 7. Ethical Research With People of Diverse Sexual Orientation: Inescapably Othered? Background Historical Queer Research Narratives Ethnography With LGBTQQ+ University Students Ethical and Methodological Considerations Inescapably Othered? Reflexive Questions Reflexive Course Experiences Resources Chapter 8. Ethical Research With People Who Are Homeless: “My Mind’s Not Homeless" Current Contexts of Homelessness People Who Are Homeless as Vulnerable Yet Capable and Competent The Research Contexts We Reflect On Ethical Considerations Reflexive Questions Reflexive Course Experiences Resources Chapter 9. Visual and Virtual Ethical Research: Captured Forever Visual Research Virtual Research Internet as a Culture Our Research Areas Ethical Considerations Reflexive Questions Reflexive Course Experiences Resources Epilogue Appendix A. Research Ethics Sample Syllabus Appendix B. Research With Native American Communities Appendix C. Older Age Is a Chronological Part of Life, Not a Vulnerability Appendix D. Ethics Should Be About Protecting Participants, Not the Research Institution Appendix E. The Use of the Internet and Skype in Qualitative Research Appendix F. Reflexive Course Experiences References Index

About the Author :
Maria K. E. Lahman is a professor of qualitative methodology at the University of Northern Colorado, in Colorado, USA. She is the author of the Sage textbooks Ethics in Social Science Research: Becoming Culturally Responsive and Writing and Representing Qualitative Research. A Mennonite, Maria challenges herself to weave aspects of social justice and peacebuilding into her pedagogy and scholarship. Maria′s scholarship is focused on creating ethical solutions for culturally complex methodological situations, diversity, young children, mothering, and qualitative writing representation.

Review :
"Ethics in Social Science Research provides students of social science research with a comprehensive guide to the most challenging ethical concerns in a variety of disciplines. This is an invaluable toolkit." "This text’s strengths are its emphasis on ethics as an ongoing, relational issue in research (rather than one only of primary concern in the planning stages) and its many concrete case study examples that students can relate to." "This text provides much needed guidance and clearly articulates the critical importance of valuing and honoring the rights of the vulnerable when they are engaged as research subjects." "The text clearly explains the historical development of research ethics and the need for Institutional Review Boards. Its strength is that it challenges researchers to consider research from the participant point of view and develop a personal moral code regarding research." This is a path-breaking, well-crafted text that charts a culturally responsive path for doing qualitative research with vulnerable populations.