Institute of Applied Social Sciences at University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Institute of Sociology at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Toruń, Poland.
J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2022 Feb-Apr;17(1-2):213-222. doi: 10.1177/15562646211055056. Epub 2021 Nov 15.
The global COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine/distancing measures have forced researchers to cope with a new situation. This paper aimed to analyze how the pandemic and its associated constraints have affected social researchers' approach to research ethics. Drawing on an online qualitative survey with 193 Polish social researchers conducted in April and May 2020, we distinguished three approaches: , , and . According to the first, the pandemic was not regarded as a situation that required additional reflection on ethical issues or changes in research approaches. By contrast, the other two were based on the assumption that the pandemic affected research project ethics. The difference was in the assessment of changes in the area of ethics. The pandemic presented an opportunity and a threat to the ethicality of research, respectively. We discuss the implications of all three approaches for research and education.
全球 COVID-19 大流行和隔离/距离措施迫使研究人员应对新情况。本文旨在分析大流行及其相关限制如何影响社会研究人员对研究伦理的态度。本研究通过 2020 年 4 月和 5 月对 193 名波兰社会研究人员进行的在线定性调查，区分了三种方法：无视、接受和批判。根据第一种方法，大流行并不被视为需要额外思考伦理问题或改变研究方法的情况。相比之下，后两种方法则假设大流行影响研究项目伦理。区别在于对伦理领域变化的评估。大流行分别为研究的伦理提供了机会和威胁。我们讨论了所有三种方法对研究和教育的影响。
