American Sociological Association: Teaching Ethics Throughout the Curriculum, Ethics, Teaching, Teaching Ethics to Students

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Numerical Listing of All Cases

The ordering of cases on this page reflects the section on Ethical Standards, found in the ASA Code of Ethics (approved by the ASA Membership in June 1997), published in 1999 and reprinted in 2006.

•	Case 01. Competence in Professional Practice
•	Case 02. Maintaining Competence
•	Case 03. Maintaining Competence
•	Case 04. Misuse of Data
•	Case 05. The Limits of Expertise
•	Case 06. Off Campus Time and Teaching Responsibilities
•	Case 07. Training and Supervising Field Workers
•	Case 08. Nondiscrimination based on national origin
•	Case 09. Nondiscrimination in Hiring Field Workers
•	Case 10. Experience or Exploitation
•	Case 11. Fair Distribution of Workload
•	Case 12. Sexual Relationships
•	Case 13. Harassment on the Basis of Ethnicity/Political Allegiance
•	Case 14. Part-time Employees
•	Case 15. Non-academic Settings
•	Case 16. Responsibilities of Academic Sociologists as Employees
•	Case 17. Responsibilities as an Employee
•	Case 18. Constraints on Research
•	Case 19. Hiring Practices
•	Case 20. Early Tenure Evaluation
•	Case 21. Objectivity and Incentives
•	Case 22. Disclosure of Sources of Grant Funds
•	Case 23. Avoidance of Personal Gain
•	Case 24. Avoidance of Personal Gain
•	Case 25. Dual-Role Relationships within an Organization
•	Case 26. Refusal in a Situation of Conflict of Interest with Respect to a Colleague
•	Case 27. Refusal in the Case of Conflict of Interest with Respect to a Relative Who Is Also a Colleague
•	Case 28. Businesses that Involve Students
•	Case 29. Payment for Use of Name and Reputation
•	Case 30. Accuracy of Credentials and Competence in Public Communications
•	Case 31. Attempting to Assure Accuracy
•	Case 32. Statements about Professional Experience
•	Case 33. Preservation of Confidential Information in Teaching
•	Case 34. Confidentiality of Information Obtained during the Course of a Sociologist's Work
•	Case 35. Enforcement Agencies and the Protection of Human Subjects
•	Case 36. Dual Roles and Student Confidentiality
•	Case 37. Respondent Confidentiality
•	Case 38. Data Ownership and Promises of Confidentiality
•	Case 39. Linking Data Sets
•	Case 40. Data Sharing and Potential Future Uses
•	Case 41. Confidentiality, Technology and Teaching
•	Case 42. Email
•	Case 43. Privacy
•	Case 44. Collegial Confidentiality
•	Case 45. Withholding Information
•	Case 46. Confidentiality of Subject Data
•	Case 47. Maintaining Confidentiality of Faculty Hiring Discussions
•	Case 48. Legal Requests/Requirements for Confidential Data from Research Field Notes
•	Case 49. Electronic Transfer of Confidential Research Data
•	Case 50. Informed Consent with Vulnerable Populations
•	Case 51. Vulnerable Populations
•	Case 52. Vulnerable populations
•	Case 53. Informed Consent with Pre-testing Convenience Samples
•	Case 54. Stage Names and Deception: Two Examples
•	Case 55. Research By Students
•	Case 56. Student Research on a Sensitive Topic
•	Case 57. Establishing Boundaries on Projects
•	Case 58. "Informal" Surveys for Policy and Planning That "Trigger" Research Projects
•	Case 59. Teenage Youth and Coercion
•	Case 60. Dissemination of Research Findings
•	Case 61. Discovery of Error in One's Own Work
•	Case 62. Data Sharing in Ongoing Projects
•	Case 63. Data Sharing
•	Case 64. Data Sharing, Informed Consent and Confidentiality
•	Case 65. Continuing Research and Protecting Confidentiality
•	Case 66. Using False, Fabricated or Misleading Data
•	Case 67. Definition of Plagiarism: Phrasing
•	Case 68. Plagiarism in Coursework
•	Case 69. Proper Credit
•	Case 70. Rights to Authorship
•	Case 71. Establishing Mutually Acceptable Agreements
•	Case 72. Acknowledging Credit in Professional Work
•	Case 73. Multiple Submission
•	Case 74. Reporting Full Findings
•	Case 75. Dual submission -- Expansion of ideas
•	Case 76. Dual submission
•	Case 77. The Role of Editors in Dual Publications
•	Case 78. The "Small Circles" Problem
•	Case 79. Selection of Reviewers -- Perceived personal animosity between a potential reviewer and author.
•	Case 80. Selection of Reviewers -- Competing approaches in a field
•	Case 81. Appropriateness of a paper for publication in a journal
•	Case 82. Appropriateness of reviewing an obviously poor paper
•	Case 83. Prolonged period of getting a submission reviewed
•	Case 84. Reviewing the Work of Students
•	Case 85. Acknowledging the Insights of Reviewers
•	Case 86. Citing Work Known through the Review Process
•	Case 87. Introducing Students to the Review Process
•	Case 88. Unauthorized use of an advisor
•	Case 89. False or Deceptive Statements
•	Case 90. Designing A Comprehensive Program
•	Case 91. Filling Last Minute Teaching Gaps
•	Case 92. Equality in Training Opportunities
•	Case 93. Change in the Classroom
•	Case 94. Intellectual Animosities and Teaching
•	Case 95. Citation of Sources and Use of Materials in Teaching
•	Case 96. Teaching, Research and Data Collection
•	Case 97. Maintaining Documentation of Professional and Scientific Work
•	Case 98. Clueless
•	Case 99. A Real Case Involving the Protection of Confidential Data
•	Case 100. Student Confidentiality
•	Case 101. Addressing Ethical Issues
•	Case 102. Duty to Report Ethical Violations of Others
•	Case 103. Hiring and Non-Prejudice