Sociologist Jailed Because He "Wouldn't Snitch" Ponders the Way Research Ought to Be Done.

Monaghan, Peter

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Publication Date: 1993

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Sociologist Jailed Because He "Wouldn't Snitch" Ponders the Way Research Ought to Be Done.

Monaghan, Peter

Chronicle of Higher Education, v40 n2 pA8-9 Sep 1 1993

A Washington doctoral candidate in sociology is jailed for contempt of court for not revealing conversations with animal-rights activists in a grand jury investigation of a research laboratory raid at his institution. The graduate student refused to breach an American Sociological Association pledge of scholarly confidentiality. (MSE)

Descriptors: Activism, Codes of Ethics, Confidentiality, Ethnography, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Laboratory Animals, Professional Associations, Research Methodology, Researchers, Sociology

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