The Principle of Voluntary Consent in Social Research Means

question 57

Multiple Choice

The principle of voluntary consent in social research means

• A)a professor who hands out a questionnaire to students should inform students that their participation is voluntary and that they can refuse to participate without penalty.
• B)many research findings actually have limited generalizability to those subjects/respondents who agree to participate in research.
• C)this norm is violated in covert field research.
• D)a researcher using deception should tell subjects that they can leave at any time.
• E)all of the above.

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