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Research ethics prescribe guidelines to protect from ............... .

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MH SET 2021 Paper 2 Sociology Question Paper (26-Sep-2021)
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Harm to participants

Research ethics are the moral principles governing how social research is conducted. Their core purpose is to protect the people who take part: informed consent, voluntary participation, confidentiality and anonymity, privacy, and avoiding physical, psychological or social harm to participants.

Ethical codes (for example the Nuremberg Code and the Belmont Report, and the guidelines of professional bodies such as the American Sociological Association) arose after abuses in research on humans. They are not about keeping a researcher out of the limelight or publicity, nor about 'pollution of mind'. The central guideline is to do no harm to participants.

Hence, the answer is Harm to participants.

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