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Social Psychology (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134641287

Author:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Publisher:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Chapter1: Introducing Social Psychology

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Imagine that you are a student who wants to write a sociological paper. While conducting your research, you run into the following ethical situation. What would you do in the scenario and some of the consequences you see for continuing with or abandoning your research? Your Topic: You become friends with people who you later find out are drug smugglers. You are interested in how social norms (or rules that guide social behavior) emerge for drug smugglers. You want to know specifically how drug smugglers justify behavior that is not accepted in the larger society as a whole. A)Do you conduct this research despite the potential to act in ways that you view as unethical? Or do you stop the research when you find that potentially damaging effects can occur? Why or why not? B) What benefits are there to understanding the social processes that you are researching? Do they outweigh the behavior you find unethical? C) What ethical issues are mostly to be violated?

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