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By Nwachukwiuke S. S. Iew (contributor)

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9780820403809 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 1987, cover price $43.95

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9780566052668 | Gower Pub Co, January 1, 1989, cover price $63.95

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Product Description: This collection of papers examines ethical issues in different kinds of social research including surveys, ethnography and historical research. Contributors also deal with ethical problems involved in examining controversial issues in education...read more
By Robert G. Burgess (editor)

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9781850002970 | Falmer Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $75.00

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9781850002987, titled "The Ethics of Educational Research" | Routledge, November 1, 1989, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: This collection of papers examines ethical issues in different kinds of social research including surveys, ethnography and historical research.

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9780203991077, titled "The Ethics of Educational Research" | Routledge, August 23, 1989, cover price $56.95

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Product Description: This monograph examines the question whether subjects' altered behavior in response to the presence of video recording equipment constitutes a threat to the accuracy and fairness of observational research. The author criticizes methodological arguments that favor restricting subjects' awareness of and involvement in the videotaping process on the grounds that inspection of the visual record would contaminate «naturally occurring» behavior...read more

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9780820411507 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1990, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: This monograph examines the question whether subjects' altered behavior in response to the presence of video recording equipment constitutes a threat to the accuracy and fairness of observational research.

Product Description: Introduces the subject for anybody about to undertake a social research project as part of their study. Illustrated throughout with case studies drawn from a wide range of research projects.

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9780582058798 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, May 1, 1991, cover price $25.25 | About this edition: Introduces the subject for anybody about to undertake a social research project as part of their study.

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Product Description: The important issues of what theory and research on human development can teach us about adolescents' vulnerability, how to reduce that vulnerability and under what circumstances parental consent does not protect children's rights are considered in this volume...read more

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9780803943339 | Sage Pubns, November 22, 1991, cover price $163.00 | About this edition: The important issues of what theory and research on human development can teach us about adolescents' vulnerability, how to reduce that vulnerability and under what circumstances parental consent does not protect children's rights are considered in this volume.

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9780803943346 | Sage Pubns, October 31, 1991, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: The important issues of what theory and research on human development can teach us about adolescents' vulnerability, how to reduce that vulnerability and under what circumstances parental consent does not protect children's rights are considered in this volume.

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Product Description: Equality has long been among the most potent of human ideals and it continues to play a prominent role in political argument. Views about equality inform much of the debate about wide-ranging issues such as racism, sexism, obligations to the poor or handicapped, relations between developed and developing countries, and the justification of competing political, economic, and ideological systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780195078602 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 24, 1993, cover price $145.00

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9780195111491 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 19, 1996), cover price $67.00 | About this edition: Equality has long been among the most potent of human ideals and it continues to play a prominent role in political argument.

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Product Description: Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies are no more "rational" or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. He suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility...read more

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9780854966387 | Berg Pub Ltd, July 1, 1993, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symbolic' than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists.

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9780226329086 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies are no more "rational" or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists.

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This reader covers a number of critical contemporary issues, topics and opinions. Each chapter covers a different area of ethical concern and contains readings covering alternative views as well as practical applications.
By James P. Sterba (editor)

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9780534521127 | Wadsworth Pub Co, August 1, 2000, cover price $77.95 | also contains Life on the Rocks: Finding Meaning in Addiction and Recovery
9780534506551 | Wadsworth Pub Co, August 1, 1996, cover price $67.95 | also contains God's Crime Scene: A Cold-case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe | About this edition: This reader covers a number of critical contemporary issues, topics and opinions.
9780534212773 | Wadsworth Pub Co, September 1, 1993, cover price $50.95 | also contains Kokoro | About this edition: This is a topically organized anthology which covers a wide range of competing positions.

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Product Description: In this volume of Leys Lectures, the third collection of Wayne Leys Memorial Lectures, six distinguished essayists demonstrate the relevance of ethics to contemporary concerns by constructively exploring major ethical issues deeply embedded in our society...read more
By John Howie and George Schedler (editor)

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9780809319718 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: In this volume of Leys Lectures, the third collection of Wayne Leys Memorial Lectures, six distinguished essayists demonstrate the relevance of ethics to contemporary concerns by constructively exploring major ethical issues deeply embedded in our society.

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Product Description: Fraud and Fallible Judgment is both an exploration of fraud and an examination of the nature of truth in social relations and experience. The essaysin this volume are concerned with deception in the social and behavioral sciences, and conditions that elicit deceptive behavior among scientists, whatever then-discipline...read more

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9781560008132 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 1995, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Fraud and Fallible Judgment is both an exploration of fraud and an examination of the nature of truth in social relations and experience.

Product Description: First-hand accounts of the ideological, moral, emotional and practical complexities that surround the doing of narrative research are offered in this volume. Exploring such issues as: whether work that risks exposing sensitive aspects of peoples′ lives can ever be fully ethical; what effect being written about has on people; the line between narrative research and psychotherapy; and the after-effects of this research on the researcher, the contributions reveal the struggles and anxieties that narrative researchers face...read more

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9780761902362 | Sage Pubns, May 1, 1996, cover price $141.00 | About this edition: First-hand accounts of the ideological, moral, emotional and practical complexities that surround the doing of narrative research are offered in this volume.

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9780761902379 | Sage Pubns, March 14, 1996, cover price $80.00

Product Description: This volume covers such topics as expert and public perspectives in defining elder abuse and neglect; elder abuse and the identification dilemma; elder abuse, ethics and context; elements compromising the autonomy of the elderly; and proxy decision-making.
By L. B. Cebik (editor), Glenn C. Graber (editor) and Frank H. Marsh (editor)

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9780762300969 | Jai Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $128.50 | About this edition: This volume covers such topics as expert and public perspectives in defining elder abuse and neglect; elder abuse and the identification dilemma; elder abuse, ethics and context; elements compromising the autonomy of the elderly; and proxy decision-making.

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9780198244400 | Clarendon Pr, November 14, 1996, cover price $150.00

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9780198238782 | Clarendon Pr, April 15, 1999, cover price $55.00

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Explaining how Americans can restore a sense of moral purpose in today's society without sacrificing individuality, a sociologist identifies what has gone wrong and considers the future of diversity in America

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9780465052974 | Basic Books, January 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Explaining how Americans can restore a sense of moral purpose in today's society without sacrificing individuality, a sociologist identifies what has gone wrong and considers the future of diversity in America

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9780465049998 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, April 10, 1998), cover price $23.00

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Product Description: Moral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraception, information on the sexual rights of women, and "obscene" art and literature...read more

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9780691027791 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $50.00

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9780691027784 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 27, 1998, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: Moral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraception, information on the sexual rights of women, and "obscene" art and literature.

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Product Description: This text is a comprehensive study seeking to show the significance of the acceptance or rejection of universal moral authority in the classical sociology of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Appeal to such an authority, whether it be Durkheim's social order, Marx's historical progress or Weber's genuine individual, leads immediately to a set of insoluble dualisms such as freedom/determinism, agency/structure, and is/ought, problems which have plagued classical European sociology...read more

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9780773487574 | Edwin Mellen Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This text is a comprehensive study seeking to show the significance of the acceptance or rejection of universal moral authority in the classical sociology of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim.

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Product Description: This text is intended for use on courses in social issues and policies. Given recent cuts in government budgets, issues such as taxation, welfare, health care, social security, and environmental protection are drawing increasing attention to the basic problems of how to divide resources equitably among all members of society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780195114324 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 25, 1997, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This text is intended for use on courses in social issues and policies.

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9780195114331 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 25, 1997, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Given the recent cuts in government budgets, issues such as taxation, welfare, education, health care, Social Security, and environmental protection are drawing increased public awareness.

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Product Description: This practical workbook provides current and future helping professionals with step-by-step guidelines for examining and resolving professional ethical dilemmas. It's the authors' belief that most serious ethical problems can be avoided by practitioners who have a strong sense of ethical self-awareness and an ability to stay out of "ethical traps" that result from their own experiences and preconceptions...read more

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9780534349394 | Brooks/Cole Pub Co, January 1, 1998, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: This practical workbook provides current and future helping professionals with step-by-step guidelines for examining and resolving professional ethical dilemmas.

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Product Description: This study is composed of a series of theoretical reflections inspired by empirical research into the ethical dilemmas of life in contradiction-ridden postmodern America. Adopting a phenomenological orientation toward their own situated, lifecourse experience, the authors dedicate chapters to subjects such as hospital birth, special education, Gen X, community-based anti-crime policy, public intellectuals, and mass death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780762304783 | Jai, October 1, 1998, cover price $119.99 | About this edition: This study is composed of a series of theoretical reflections inspired by empirical research into the ethical dilemmas of life in contradiction-ridden postmodern America.

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