Fall, 2007 (Roos, Soc. 311)

Assignment 5: Ethics Panel Assignments

Presentations will be November 15th, 19th, and 20th. Write-ups are due the day you present. NO late write-ups accepted. You must both present and hand in assignment to get full credit.

Please note: we will meet Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving week. PLAN ACCORDINGLY. Tuesday=RU Thursday that week.

The Ethics of Social Research

Panel 1. Stanford Prison Experiment (Philip Zimbardo, Stanford University, 1971) [read through the entire "slide show," from "Prelude" to "Conclusion" [date of presentation: Thursday, November 15th]

Panel: Amankwah, Baldan, Beljour, Brenner, Brown, Bryan, Campe, Chowdhury, Coffman, Colline, Coyman, Cruz

Panel 2. Gretchen Reynolds, "The Stuttering Doctor's 'Monster Study'," New York Times Magazine. March 16, 2003 (Wendell Johnson, 1939) [go to Iris, then Reserve Desk; type in Roos, then click on instructor; click on my name and look for article] [date of presentation: Thursday, November 15th]

Panel: D'Antignac, Dixit, Doud, Eisdorfer, Finkel, Fletcher, Gamberg, Gold, Havardansky, Hungria, Johnson, Karr

Panel 3. Erich Goode. "Sexual Involvement and Social Research in a Fat Civil Rights Organization." Qualitative Sociology 25:501-34, 2002. [go to Iris, then Reserve Desk; type in Roos, then click on instructor; click on my name and look for article] [date of presentation: Monday, November 19th]

Panel: Kennedy, Kerwin, Kirkland, Lee, Lim, Linn, Lynn, Mak, Mangelli, McLoughlin, Melione

The Politics and Uses of Social Research

Panel 4. Christopher Shea, "Don't Talk to the Humans: The Crackdown on Social Science Research," Lingua Franca, Volume 10, No. 6 - September 2000. [go to Iris, then Reserve Desk; type in Roos, then click on instructor; click on my name and look for article] [date of presentation: Monday, November 19th ]

Panel: Menapace, Nelson, Nematalla, Neumany, Nicodemo, Ogletree, Orosz, Pipitone, Prentice, Rodriguez, Sampedro, Schantz

Panel 5. Jason DeParle, "Daring Research or 'Social Science Pornography'?: Charles Murray," New York Times Magazine. October 9, 1994. [go to Iris, then Reserve Desk; type in Roos, then click on instructor; click on my name and look for article] [date of presentation: Tuesday, November 20th]

Panel: Scheman, Schleicher, Schuler, Scripture, Sierra, Sock, Szorf, Wilders, Witkowska, Wukmir, Zakrzewski