ABSTRACT

This book addresses the ethical and methodological issues that researchers face while conducting cross-cultural social research.

With globalization and advanced means of communication and transportation, many researchers conduct research in cross-cultural, multicultural, and transnational settings. Through a range of case studies, and drawing on a range of disciplinary expertise, this book addresses the ethics, errors, and ethnocentrism of conducting law and crime related research in settings where power differences, as well as stereotypes, may come into play. Including chapters from scholars across cultures and settings – including Greece, Canada, Vienna, South Africa, India, and the United States – this book provides an invaluable survey of the issues attending cross-cultural social justice research today.

Engaging issues confronted by all cross-cultural researchers this book will be invaluable to those working across the social sciences as well as professionals in criminal justice and social work.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|24 pages

Ethics and generalizability in qualitative research

Collecting data from refugees and forced migrants, a case study

chapter 3|28 pages

Social science research in Canada

Ethical and methodological issues

chapter 5|17 pages

Methodological challenges and ethical dilemmas

Research on domestic violence in Greece

chapter 6|26 pages

Co-opting voice and cultivating fantasy

Contextualizing and critiquing the A Gay Girl in Damascus hoax blog

chapter 7|26 pages

“Hindu nationalism” or “Hinduphobia”?

Ethnocentrism, errors, and bias in media and media studies

chapter 8|22 pages

Performing intersectional reflexivity

Conducting ethical interviews with Muslim International and Muslim American students in the Trump era

chapter 9|18 pages

“An explanation of each ceremony … and on which occasion they are performed”

Red Jacket and the presentation of Native history in early American museums