Social Research Ethics: an examination of the merits of covert participant observation

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Ethical Problems in Social Research: the case of covert participant observation....Pages 3-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
On Being Sane in Insane Places....Pages 15-37
Tearoom Trade: Means and Ends in Social Research....Pages 38-58
‘An Inside Job’: a case study of covert research on the police....Pages 59-79
Observational Research on the National Front....Pages 80-104
On the Merits of Covert Methods: a dialogue....Pages 105-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Social Inquiry and the Autonomy of the Individual....Pages 125-141
On the Ethics of Disguised Observation: an exchange between Norman Denzin and Kai Erikson....Pages 142-151
The Protection of Human Subjects: a re-examination of the professional code of ethics....Pages 152-165
Freedom and Risk....Pages 166-184
Moral Judgements: strategies for analysis with application to covert participant observation....Pages 185-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
The Merits and Demerits of Covert Participant Observation....Pages 217-251
Back Matter....Pages 252-284