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- Title
Apples and oranges: ethnography and the IRB.
- Authors
LIBRETT, MITCH; PERRONE, DINA
- Abstract
This article outlines the trials and tribulations encountered in negotiating institutional review board approval of ethnographic research among undercover police officers and recreational drug users in dance club settings. While Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and ethnographic research seek to protect the participants of research, they operate on two diametrically opposed paths. Ethnographers enter the research field with the goal of observing natural behavior, and taking steps to ensure they do not influence activity; anonymity is impossible, while confidentiality essential. IRBs, on the contrary, mandate an informed consent and oversight process that can compromise confidentiality. This has greatly affected contemporary ethnographic research and has had serious consequences for both the research participants and the production of knowledge.
- Subjects
COMMITTEES; INFORMED consent (Medical law); LEGAL liability; MEDICAL ethics; PROFESSIONAL peer review; PRIVACY; RESEARCH ethics; ETHNOLOGY research; QUALITATIVE research; OCCUPATIONAL roles; RESEARCH personnel
- Publication
Qualitative Research, 2010, Vol 10, Issue 6, p729
- ISSN
1468-7941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1468794110380548