Chapter 3 Learning Objectives

1. Explain the four major ethical issues in the treatment of research participants: potential harm, informed consent, deception, and privacy invasion.

2. Use federal regulations and professional guidelines concerning the ethical treatment of research participants.

3. Apply the process of ethical decision-making to your own research.

4. Discuss the relationship between politics and social research.

5. Describe how ethics and politics may be related in social research.