Ethics in Social Science Research: Becoming Culturally Responsive provides a thorough grounding in research ethics, along with examples of real-world ethical dilemmas in working with vulnerable populations. Author Maria K. E. Lahman aims to help qualitative research students design ethically and culturally responsive research with communities that may be very different from their own. Throughout, compelling first person accounts of ethics in human research–both historical and contemporary–are highlighted and each chapter includes vignettes written by the author and her collaborators about real qualitative research projects.

Ethical Research With People of Diverse Sexual Orientation : Inescapably Othered?1

Ethical Research With People of Diverse Sexual Orientation : Inescapably Othered?1

Eric D. Teman Maria K. E. Lahman Veronica M. Richard

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

—James Baldwin

Eric: On an evening in early January during the second semester of an educational ethnography, I received an email from the director of the LGBTQQ+ university cultural center, stating one of the students had passed away. I later learned this individual was one of the participants in the ethnographic research study, and it was apparently a suicide. ...

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