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A Most Human Enterprise
Controversies in the Social Sciences
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2012
Summary
A Most Human Enterprise looks at controversial social science research methods and their effects on subjects and researchers. In detailing case studies in which plagiarism was alleged, subjects were mislead or seriously abused, and research denigrated certain demographics, Donald O. Granberg and John F. Galliher demonstrate how social scientists have strayed from the ethical standards of scientific research. Case studies include the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the well-known pseudo-prison work of Philip Zimbardo, the obedience research of Stanley Milgram, and the study of sex in public places by sociologist Laud Humphreys. Many of the studies that were most damaging to human subjects were funded by government, making the current concerns of university Institutional Review Boards seem ironic. A Most Human Enterprise also investigates consequences of plagiarism in the social sciences, the role that whistle blowers can play, and the consequences of their acts. Humans are, of course, capable of lofty and amazing accomplishments. Yet they are, nevertheless, also subject to bias, prejudice, ego involvement, and poor judgment. This book demonstrates the inadequacy of Institutional Review Boards in limiting ethical lapses in the social sciences, and seeks to create a reader more sensitive to the problems and pitfalls that arise in the course of doing social research.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2797-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4729-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
151
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Table of Contents No access
Introduction No access
1: Granberg and Galliher Find Their Way into Ethical Issues No access Pages 1 - 22
2: Stanley Milgram’s Behavioral Study of Obedience No access
3: Philip Zimbardo’s Prison Simulation Study No access
4: David Rosenhan’s Pseudo-patient Study of Psychiatric Hospitals No access
5: The Short, Tumultuous, and Ignominious Career of Project Camelot No access
6: Laud Humphreys and Tearoom Trade: A Pioneering Study of Male Homosexuality No access
7: The Strange Case of Cyril Burt No access
8: Cyril Burt and Margaret Mead: The Conflict between Biological Determinists and Cultural Determinists No access
9: Once a Rising Star: The Rise and Fall of Karen Ruggiero No access
10: Plagiarism by Thin Editing No access
11: Plagiarism and “Punishment” Texas A&M Style: Victim Blaming and Golden Parachutes No access
12: Controversy over Five Dimensions of Religiosity No access
13: The Clark-Hatfield Study of Gender Differences in Receptivity to Sexual Offers No access
14: Allegations of Homosexual Arousal No access
15: An Interference with Breathing Study No access
16: Simulated Crash Landing No access
17: Henry Murray Directs Verbal Attacks on Harvard Undergraduates No access
18: Putney and Cadwallader’s Simulation of the Beginning of a Nuclear War No access
