Reflections on ethical problems encountered in field research on Mexican male homosexuality

1968 To Present

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15098239
AutoresJoseph M Carrier (autor de correspondencia), Joseph Carrier
Año1999
Volumen1
Número3
Páginas207-221
Fecha de publicación1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/136910599300987
PMID12322215
OpenAlexW2066682050
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas4

The author candidly presents the major ethical problems he encountered over time in conducting field research on male homosexuality in Mexico from 1968 to now and describes how they were resolved. Some of the research methods used in pioneering studies by Laud Humphreys thirty years ago and by Ralph Bolton more recently are then discussed to exemplify some of the ethical problems researchers may have to resolve while gathering data on male homosexual behaviours in the field. Looking even further back in time, recently revealed hidden qualitative research methods used by Kinsey and his colleagues back in the 1940s are also noted. The final part of the discussion focuses on the role the private sex life of an ethnographer may play in the research design and data collection strategies of a study in the field. Serendipity is revealed to be an important but often hidden factor in the design of ethnographic field studies of human sexual behaviours. When knowledge from an ethnographer's private sex life is used to inform field research on human sexual behaviours, a careful and continuous review must be made with respect to the ethicality of its effect on the research design

Cognitive science · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Field research · Homosexuality · Human research · Psychoanalysis · Qualitative research · Serendipity · Social science · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Anthropology · Engineering · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender Studies · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics