| The Disturbed Subject: Epistemological and Ethical Implications of Reactivity in Videotape Research Contributor(s): Roth, Jeffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820411507 ISBN-13: 9780820411507 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $39.85 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Research - Psychology |
| Dewey: 300.72 |
| LCCN: 89036880 |
| Series: American University Studies. Series VIII, Psychology |
| Physical Information: 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. Roth argues that this pursuit of invisibility compromises the ethical principles undergirding the subject/researcher relationship - specifically, the doctrine of mutually informed consent. In the final chapter he offers an alternative model of videotape-centered research wherein subjects' reactivity to observation is shown to enlarge the meaning and purpose of social inquiry." |
