The rights of the subject in social research: An analysis in terms of relative power and legitimacy.
The rights of the subject in social research: An analysis in terms of relative power and legitimacy.
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社会研究中主体的权利:相对权力和合法性的分析。
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1972
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H. Kelman
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H. Kelman
T HE increasing use of social research in American society and its increasing rele vance to public policy and social decisions have engendered widespread concerns about the ethical implications of such research activities. Briefly, these concerns are of two kinds: (a) con, cerns relating to the processes of social research, which are exemplified best by the issue of invasion of privacy and its various ramifications; and (b) concerns relating to the products of social research, which focus largely on the fear that social research may provide tools for controlling and manipulating human behavior and, more specifically, that these tools may be used by some segments of the society at the expense of others. Along with many social scientists, I share the conviction that hoth the process and the products of social research-both the attempt to ask syste matic and analytic questions about human behavior and social institu tions, and the answers provided by these attempts-are potentially liberating forces in our society. Social research, in my admittedly biased view, can and does contribule 10 enhancing the freedom of choice of the individual and 10 ex paDding the range of choices available to him. Yet,