Human Research Protections in Sociology and the Social Sciences

Readings and Protocols
Volume 2

Table of Contents

I.  Readings

A. Background on Human Research Protections and Review

              i.      Research Ethics - A Brief Historical Review to 1965, S. Lock

             ii.      The Institutional Review Board: Its Origins, Purpose, Function, and Future, C.  R. McCarthy

B. Ethical Issues in Human Research Protections:  Overview and Key Concepts

             i.      Ethical Issues in Different Social Science Methods, H. Kelman

            ii.      Similarities and Differences Between Biomedical and Behavioral Research, R. J. Levine

           iii.      The Signed Form - Informed Consent?, C. W. Lidz & L. H. Roth

           iv.      Informed Consent and Survey Response: A Summary of the Empirical Literature, E. Singer

           v.      Informed Consent: Consequences for Response Rate and Response Quality in Social Surveys, E. Singer

           vi.      The Independent Evolution of Informed Consent to Research, J. W. Berg,  P. S. Appelbaum, C. W. Lidz, L. Parker

           vii.      Privacy and Confidentiality, S. Folkman

           viii.      Confidentiality Assurances and Response: A Quantitative Review of the Experimental Literature, E. Singer, D. R. Von Thurn, & E. R. Miller

           ix.      Referring and Reporting Research Participants at Risk: Views from Urban Adolescents, C. B. Fisher, A. Higgins-D¡¯Alessandro, J. M. B. Rau, T. L. Kuther, S. Belanger

           x.      Presidential Address: Informed Consent and Confidentiality in Survey Research, S. Presser

C. Challenging Contexts and Circumstances

               i.      Keeping Deception Honest: Justifying Conditions for Social Scientific Research Strategems, A. C. Elms

              ii.      Ethical Challenges in Community-Based Research, P. A. Marshall & C. Rotimi

             iii.      Integrating Science and Ethics in Research with High-Risk Children and Youth, C. B. Fisher

             iv.      Anticipatory Planning for Research Participants with Psychotic Disorders Like Schizophrenia, P. Backlar

             v.      The Field Turns Fifty: Social Change and the Practice of Disaster Field Work, K. Tierney

            vi.      Ethics of Research in Refugee Populations, J. Leaning

            vii.      Human Rights, Politics, and Reviews of Research Ethics, C. Beyrer & N. E. Kass

II.    IRB Approved Protocols in the Social Sciences

A. Community Studies, Case Studies, and Field Research

                      i.      Loved Up in a "Teenage Wasteland": Subcultural Female Sexuality in the "Rave" Setting, S. Fergusson

                     ii.      Temporary Work, Contingent Lives: Day Laboring in Atlanta¡¯s Manual Trades and Industries, T. Easton

                    iii.      From Commerce to Community: Feminist Bookstores in the U.S., K. Liddle

B. Ethnography

                       i.      Ethnography as Theology: Holy Week in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico with La Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno, D. M. Mellott

C.  Extant Data Collection

                        i.      Understanding Health and Behavior: Results Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, R. Agnew

                       ii.      Assessing the Relationship between Self-Efficacy for Diabetes Management and Diabetes Knowledge, S. Mysoor

D.  Surveys

                        i.      Campus Safety and Violence: Student Perspectives, Safety Measures, and the Campus Security Act, S. Zinns

                       ii.      2000-01 Higher Education Data Sharing Graduate Student Survey, D. Teodorescu

E.  Experiments

                        i.      The Effects of Legitimacy on Responses to Injustice, K. A. Hegtvedt and C. Johnson

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