A Transactional Approach to Research Ethics
Abstract: Constructivist (constructionist) epistemologies focus on ethics as a system of values in the mind—even when previously co-constructed in a social context—against which social agents compare the actions that they mentally plan before performing them. This approach is problematic, as it forces a wedge between thought and action, body and mind, universal and practical ethics, and thought and affect. In this contribution, I develop a transactional approach to ethics that cannot be developed within constructionism. In a once-occurrent world, every act is ethical because it has consequences for the agent (who affects and is also affected), and the world as a whole. However, whereas many in the social sciences continue to articulate a theory of action and thus the practical nature of ethics in terms of the individual's act, in this contribution I show that the act always already is spread across people and things and, thus, is an integral and constitutive part of a transaction. This utter.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3061
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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A Transactional Approach to Research Ethics ; volume:19 ; number:3 ; day:26 ; month:09 ; year:2018
Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 19, Heft 3 (26.09.2018)
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Roth, Wolff-Michael
- DOI
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10.17169/fqs-19.3.3061
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022021017190670055487
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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