SOC 1110 Assignment 1 – Code of Ethics as found
Assignment One: Online Research – Two Experiments 6 Points Please complete the following assignment in Microsoft Word, and put it in the Assignments Link. For both of
these experiments, make sure you are aware of the ASA Code of Ethics as found in your textbook.
Use the following three links to answer the questions:
Stanford Prison Research
Read about the Tuskegee experiment at
Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
CDC Information on Tuskegee Experiment
After reading all of these, answer the following questions for both experiments.
Questions
What are the principles of the Code of Ethics?
Was it ethical to do these studies, based on the ASA Code of Ethics? Why or why not? Be specific for each experiment. What criteria did each experiment violate?
Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research?
If you were the experimenter in charge, would you have done these studies? Would you have terminated them earlier? Would you have conducted a follow-up study?
