En quête d’éthique: Dispositions légales et enjeux empiriques pour l’anthropologie

Julie Perrin; Nolwenn Bühler; Marc-Antoine Berthod; Jérémie Forney; Sabine Kradolfer Morales; Laurence Ossipow-Wuest

doi:10.36950/tsantsa.2020.025.30

Searching for Ethics

Legal Requirements and Empirical Issues for Anthropology

Julie Perrin University of Neuchâtel
Nolwenn Bühler University of Lausanne, University of Neuchâtel
Marc-Antoine Berthod HETSL Fachhochschule für Soziale Arbeit Lausanne https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3112-1556
Jérémie Forney University of Neuchâtel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8918-1757
Sabine Kradolfer Morales University of Lausanne https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7030-3662
Laurence Ossipow-Wuest HETS University of Applied Sciences Geneva

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36950/tsantsa.2020.025.30

Keywords: research ethics, legislation, informed consent, ethics committee, epistemology

Abstract

This document is a translation of the 2018 article «Searching for Ethics: Legal requirements and empirical issues for anthropology» (Perrin et al. 2018). It analyses the new legal provisions impacting qualitative research practices and contributing to the institutionalization of research ethics in social sciences and the humanities in Switzerland. After contextualizing the emergence of new forms of research regulation, it shows how their epistemological assumptions challenge anthropology. It then explores the issues related to the articulation between procedural ethics and processual ethics. Finally, it discusses the different postures which might possibly be adopted by scholars in anthropology and other qualitative social sciences.

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Published

2020-09-21

How to Cite

Perrin, Julie, Nolwenn Bühler, Marc-Antoine Berthod, Jérémie Forney, Sabine Kradolfer Morales, and Laurence Ossipow-Wuest. 2020. “Searching for Ethics: Legal Requirements and Empirical Issues for Anthropology”. Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology 25 (September):225-67. https://doi.org/10.36950/tsantsa.2020.025.30.