Virtue Ethics in the Conduct and Governance of Social Science Research.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity Series ; v.3 .
- Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity Series .
Intro -- VIRTUE ETHICS IN THE CONDUCT AND GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- About the Series Editor -- About the Volume Editor -- Series Preface -- Introduction: Virtue and the Ethics of Social Research -- Introduction -- Virtue Ethics and its Appeal -- Summary of Chapters -- Final Remarks -- References -- Section 1: Virtue and Integrity in Social Science Research -- Chapter 1: Cultivating Researcher Integrity: Virtue-Based Approaches to Research Ethics -- Introduction -- Virtue Ethics -- The Nature of Virtues -- Research Integrity and Researcher Integrity -- Researcher Integrity -- Versions of Researcher Integrity -- The Virtues of a Researcher -- List 1: Some Virtues for Researchers (Adapted from Banks & -- Gallagher, 2009) -- Cultivating Researchers of Integrity -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 2: Questioning the Virtue of Virtue Ethics: Slowing the Rush to Virtue in Research Ethics -- Introduction -- 1. The Concept of Virtue is Dangerously Ill-Defined -- 2. Virtue's Rise May Serve Factional Political Purposes -- 3. Virtue Ethics Fails to Seriously Engage with Systems, Context and Structure -- Implications have been Missed or Minimised -- 4. Aspirational Codes, Especially When Expecting Demonstration of 'Virtue', Need to be Tempered with Reality -- 5. Being 'Critically Virtuous' is Unlikely -- 6. We Cannot Assume that Education Will Lead to Moral or Virtuous Researchers -- 7. Research Ethics cannot be Predicated on a Phantastical Belief in 'Mind Reading' and our Responsibility cannot be to Speculate about Motives, but to Focus on the Conduct of Research and Behaviour of Researchers Rather than their Imagined Motives -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Research Ethics Training: Using a Virtue Ethics Approach to Training to Support Development of Researcher Integrity. Introduction -- Background -- Towards an Improved Model for Instruction in Research Ethics and Integrity -- The Virtue Ethics Approach -- Influences on Researcher Behaviour -- Bad Research Practice Model -- Training for Integrity -- Good Research Practice Model -- The Virtue Ethics Training Model -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Professional Integrity of Social Science Researchers - Can Virtue Ethics Help? -- Introduction -- Ethical Approval and Access to Participants for Research Work -- Four Principles -- Virtue Ethics -- Individual Conscience Approach to Ethics -- Objectivity And Adam Smith's Idea of 'Impartial Spectator' -- Smithian Categorical Imperative -- Conclusion -- References -- Section 2: Virtue and The Review/Governance of Social Science Research -- Chapter 5: Virtue Ethics in the Practice and Review of Social Science Research: The Virtuous Ethics Committee -- Introduction -- Criticisms of Ethics Committees -- Addressing The Key Questions -- Aristotle's Ethics -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Relating to Carpenter's Virtuous Research Ethics Committee -- Introduction -- The Trouble with Research Ethics Committees -- Reflexive Ethical Engagement and Teaching Research Ethics -- Macfarlane's Virtuous Researcher -- The Virtuous Research Ethics Committee -- Virtue Ethics, Research Ethics and Care Ethics -- Research Ethics and Research Relationships -- Practicing Virtue When Principles Conflict -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: A Response to David Carpenter's 'Virtue Ethics in the Practice and Review of Social Science Research' -- Introduction -- Moral Agency and the Role of Principles in Deliberative Inquiry -- Ethical Frameworks Proposed by Carpenter -- The Ford Teaching Project -- The Freedom to Express Ideas and Develop Lines of Inquiry -- Constraint -- Constraint Removing Strategy -- Guidance Strategy. The Freedom to Discuss Problems, Ideas and Evidence -- Constraint -- Constraint Removing Strategy -- Guidance Strategy -- Ethical Codes of Practice Governing Access to and Release of Data in Case Study-Based Action Research -- Classroom Observation and Interviews with the Teacher and Pupils Concerned -- Access to and Release of Data by Researchers from Outside for the Purpose of Engaging Teachers in Research -- Some Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 8: Commentary On: Virtue Ethics in the Practice and Review of Social Science Research: The Virtuous Ethics Committee by David Carpenter -- Commentary -- References -- Section 3: Phrón ēsis in the Practice /Conduct and Review/Governance of SocialScientific Research -- Chapter 9: Ethical Regulation of Social Research Versus The Cultivation of Phrónēsis -- Introduction -- The Concept of PhrÓnēsis -- The Conflict with Ethical Regulation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Is Phrónēsis Necessarily Virtuous? -- Introduction -- Aristotle, Virtue, and Phrónēsis -- The Revival of Interest in Phrónēsis -- New Elements in Recent Usage of Phrónēsis -- Variations in the Interpretation of Phrónēsis -- Is Phrónēsis Necessarily Good? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: From Phrónēsis to Habitus: Synderesis and the Practice(s) of Ethics and Social Research -- Introduction -- Phrónēsis -- The Normativity of Practice(s) -- Synderesis and the (Moral) Habitus of Social Researchers: An Alternative to Phrónēsis -- Conclusion: Practicing Ethics -- References -- Index.
This edited collection focuses on the virtue theory and the ethics of social science research.
9781787146075
Social sciences-Research-Moral and ethical aspects.