Ethical Considerations in Institutional Ethnographic Research
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https://doi.org/10.5294/pebi.2023.27.1.8Keywords:
Research, ethics, ethics research, ethical review, scientific publication ethics, institutional ethnographyAbstract
This review article aims to identify the primary ethical considerations researchers must have in conducting institutional ethnographic research. A state-of-the-art review was conducted, analyzing 298 theses/dissertations. After applying inclusion, exclusion, and duplicate elimination criteria, 14 documents formed the final sample. The ethical considerations identified were structured into three groups: “planning and methodological aspects,” “data collection,” and “analysis, result presentation, and data management after study completion.” The results identified are associated with the distinctive essence of institutional ethnography as an incipient approach since one of the aspects learned in such ethnography is observing how people organize things, which is directly associated with the researcher’s form of data collection. Twenty-two considerations were identified, with data collection having the most elements described. Moreover, the importance of the anonymity of informants, third parties involved, and the institution where the study is a distinguishing ethical consideration of the incipient approach.
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