ETHICS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH WITH REFERENCE TO HUMAN AND ANIMAL PARTICIPANTS

Author:

Alam Aftab1,Matin Kashif2

Affiliation:

1. College of Teacher Education, Darbhanga Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad

2. Department of Educational Studies Faculty of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Abstract

The present paper aims to discuss the ethics and ethical issues that come to light in the process of social science research specifically concerning human beings and animals that participate in such researches. Ethical tensions and issues are a part of the daily practice of all kinds of research. The researcher of the field of social sciences should deal carefully when the participants of the study are human being or animals or both because the process of research demands the researcher to be objective and completely focus on the aims and objectives of the problems and the other side rights of human beings and animals demand that they should not be hurt and misbehaved. This situation creates a dilemma and confusion puts into stress and anxiety for the researcher. The paper attempts to discuss especially those issues of human and animal participants that commonly create problem and difficulty for the researcher in the field of the research of social sciences. The paper also discusses the academic freedom and responsibilities of the researcher as well as why each research requires to go through the process of ethical approval. The paper also gives a detailed discussion about guiding ethical principles such as autonomy of researchers and academic institutions, free and informed consent from participants, privacy and confidentiality, harms and benefits and respect for a vulnerable person. Both, academic freedom and rights of human beings and animals have different demands and sometimes they come opposite to each other which creates problem to the researcher to balance in their research.

Publisher

Gujarat University

Subject

General Medicine

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