Abstract
Ethical decision making in the social sciences occurs at various levels. The issues we usually consider when thinking about the ethics of social science research deal with questions that arise after the research problem has been defined and the basic methodology developed. However, ethics is also involved in evaluating the underlying premises of social science research. In this chapter, I have chosen to look at ethical premises underlying research on aging. It is hoped that this endeavor will both complement the approaches to ethical decision making employed in the other chapters of this book, and reveal a few ethical problems that do not usually come to light.
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Levine, E.K. (1982). Old People Are Not All Alike: Social Class, Ethnicity/Race, and Sex Are Bases for Important Differences. In: Sieber, J.E. (eds) The Ethics of Social Research. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5719-6_6
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