Ethics

Teaching Consent Before Content

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Are you interested in discussing ethics in one of your sociology courses? This resource from ASA provides over a hundred case studies that can help facilitate discussion!

Dixon and Quirke (2017) discuss how ethics chapters in sociological research methods textbooks promote a procedural rather than nuanced approach to ethics. They suggest ways for instructors to help students develop a fuller understanding of conducting ethical research.