Ethics in ethnography : a mixed methods approach

Content: Chapter 1: Ethics and ethnography --
What are ethics? --
What are research ethics? --
Ethics in social science research --
What is a human subject? --
Ethics and epistemology: Do ethnographers face greater ethical challenges than other types of researcher? --
Confronting the stereotype of scientific neutrality --
Formal research ethics and everyday research ethics --
Chapter 2: The evolution of formal concerns about and ethical principles governing human research --
The origins of formal oversight --
Medical research and risk to human subjects --
Social science research and risks to human subjects --
Disciplinary codes of ethics and the problems of enforcement --
The Belmont Report 1978 --
The Belmont principles --
Chapter 3: Formal and semiformal responsibilites --
Semiformal responsibilities --
Formal contractual responsibilities --
When is IRB or IEC approval necessary? --
Issues of particular concern to IRBs and IECs --
Levels of reviews --
Components of an IRB proposal --
The power of institutional review boards and institutional ethics committees --
Coping with multiple IRBs --
Chapter 4: Informal ethics: The implications of researcher roles and characteristics --
The embedded contexts and multiple roles of ethnographic work --
Being a learner --
Creating a field identity --
Coping with relationships in the field: Personal characteristics, asymmetrical relationships, and positionality --
Personal friendships in the field --
Chapter 5: Informal ethics: Long-term relationships and reasonable responsibilities --
Introduction: Feasible and possible responsibilities --
Coping with associations in the field: Affiliations and sponsorships --
Maintaining good relationships --
Coresearchers and research partners --
Negotiating an exit and leaving the field --
Reciprocity and feedback --
Dissemination and disposition of data --
Assuring program continuation --
Chapter 6: Ethical issues in ethnographic teamwork and community-based research --
Ethical considerations in intrateam interactions --
Ethical considerations in team interaction with study communities/ sites and participants --
Protecting the study community --
Chapter 7: Going beyond Belmont: New issues and challenges --
Challenges to IRB \"Surveillance\" and control --
Contesting Western epistemological and ontological hegemony --
Redefining key terms in the twenty-first century --
Obtaining consent --
Exposure to risks and new forms of vulnerability --
Technology and retrievability of information --
Ethics and the consequences of interpretation --
Chapter 8: The role of reflection in ethnographic research --
Introduction: What is reflection? --
Identifying subjectivities --
Positionality and power --
The risks of the \"other\" --
Taking stock.