Sensitive Topics, Missing Data, and Refusal in Social Network Studies
An Ethical Examination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11053751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erin Rose Ellison (0000-0001-7240-3130, University of California Santa Cruz CA USA, corresponding author), Regina Day Langhout (0000-0001-9607-8539, University of California Santa Cruz CA USA) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 327-335 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajcp.12195 |
| PMID | 29154409 |
| OpenAlex | W2769908000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 30 |
We describe our ethics‐driven process of addressing missing data within a social network study about accountability for racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cis‐sexism, ableism, and other forms of oppression among social justice union organizers. During data collection, some would‐be participants did not return emails and others explicitly refused to engage in the research. All refusals came from women of color. We faced an ethical dilemma: Should we continue to seek participation from those who had not yet responded, with the hopes of recruiting more women of color from within the network so their perspectives would not be tokenized? Or, should we stop asking those who had been contacted multiple times, which would compromise the social network data and analysis? We delineate ways in which current discussions of the ethics of social network studies fell short, given our framework and our community psychology ( CP ) values. We outline literature that was helpful in thinking through this challenge; we looked outside of CP to the decolonization literature on refusal. Lessons learned include listening for the possible meanings of refusals and considering the level of engagement and the labor required of participants when designing research studies
Accountability · Heterosexism · Homosexuality · Oppression · Political science · Public relations · Racism · Social media · Social network (sociolinguistics) · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Gender Studies · Health Policy Implementation Science · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |