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Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University Unit-4: Ethical Issues in Social Research

Unit-4: Ethical Issues in Social Research notes

contents
objectives

introduction
4.1 Physical and Personal Qualities
4.2 intellectual Qualities
4.3 Behavioural Qualities

4.4 Qualities related to subject of study
4.5 Qualities related to field Work
4.6 Qualities Related to Scientific Spirit
4.7 summary

4.8 Keywords
4.9 review Questions
4.10 further readings

objectives

After studying this unit students will be able to:
y Personal qualities of research scholar
y the moral qualities and issues of scholar.

introduction

social research is not a simple work and everybody cannot do it. some bookish knowledge is not
enough for research work. internal and external qualities are important for research. the reason is
also clear. social research is related to social happenings and happenings are complex, changeable,
live and individualistic. So their study is more difficult then natural incidents.
subject- study if social incidents is in fact study of mankind done by mankind. it means that the
problem or Subject a person is researching about, he himself is a part of. That is why it is very difficult
for him to be completely unbiased, removed and immune to it. His thoughts, beliefs, opinions and
ideology come into his way on every step and revert him.
this is the reason there si always a probability of mistakes in the conclusion of research. to keep
himself away from effect of these type of conditions and factors a research scholar has to have special
knowledge and capability to reach the exactness of the research. there cannot be any list of qualities
of a good scholar but a few general characteristics can be described. We will discuss these qualities
in this chapter.

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