Privacy of the informant-participant (hereafter called participant). The central ethical consideration in videotape research concerns the Related to research with videotape in the present brief statement. I will mention only a few crucial points specifically In some detail elsewhere (see, for example, Ruebhausen and Brim 1965,Īnd Westin 1967). These issues, deserving, I think, some extendedĭiscussion, are the subject of the present paper.Įthical considerations in behavioral science research have been discussed With the use of videotape technology, and the implications of the use of The issues include the ethics of detailedĬoverage of human activity with videotape, the field program associated
Trial and error, and a continuing effort to control an inclination to preoccupation with the technology. Has not developed without thought concerning serious issues, a degree of The appropriate use of videotape technology in my work, however, Videotape records as a constant reference point,Ī point of departure, permit grounded, well considered conclusionsĭuring the interpretation of original field data. Interpretation of both general and specific sociocultural phenomena.įourth, videotape records can be employed to establish connectionsīrought to you by | Cambridge University Libraryīetween abstractions and inferences and the observed phenomena upon Third, videotape records permit review by scientists and informant-participants in the field to stimulate response and to increase the scope of Analytical operations applied to videotape records can beĪssessed for intersubjective reliability. The quality and reliability of general statements concerning the activity may, as a result, be Sequences of observed activity for later scrutiny. Second, when carried out with intelligence by trained researchers, videotape coverage permits scientific rigor. And it provides a context for limited coverage ofĪctivity on photographs and/or audiotapes, or limited coverage through It complements high definition coverage of short sequences of activity, say on This coverage supplements inclusive written accounts of the activity. Setting in much of its complexity over relatively extended time periods. First, it permits coverage of the stream of activity in the natural Videotape technology has been advantageous in my work for several Recently in research on acute and long-term effects of the use of psychoactive substances in both rural and urban settings in Mexico. Services in a small agricultural community in Jamaica, West Indies and
Inclusive systems theoretical framework - first as an analyst of communicative behavior in a New York ghetto then during studies of behaviorĪssociated with the acquisition, maintenance, and exchange of goods and For several years I have been interested in the integration of knowledgeĬoncerning various levels of social-economic-cultural organization in an