Raziskovalna etika med znanostjo, zasebnostjo in birokracijo
Research ethics between science, privacy and bureaucracy

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines key ethical dilemmas that arise between researchers and participants, while demonstrating difficulties in solving them and highlighting their contextual nature. The first part discusses confidentiality, anonymity and informed consent, three principal steps in protecting research subjects, and the difficulties of implementing them in social research. It proceeds to review emerging ethical issues on the Internet, a new research medium, and ends with a discussion on the bureaucratisation of ethical procedures and the risks the process brings. The paper concludes that, due to the diversity of methods and research situations, contextual decision-making fits the social sciences better than a universalist approach. Accordingly, ethical regulation based on rigid deontological principles may hamper social research.

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