a) Describe at least three ethical challenges or concerns that researchers in the social sciences face.

 

b) Explain some of the principles, safeguards, and tools used to ensure ethical practice and scholarship by researchers in the social sciences 

 

c) One of the principles Lori Wilkinson and her co-authors specify for ethical research is that "the potential benefits of a research project must substantially outweigh the potential harm to participants." Do you think this means that research that is harmful to its participants but is beneficial to society as a whole should still be permitted? If a research project that is guilty of the concerns in a) and not checked by the systems in b) delivered results that benefited more people than it hurt, should its results still be accepted, in your opinion