The Compromising of Ethical Ideals in Gathering Qualitative Research Data
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The article intended to study only the data gathering and environmental contexts of the qualitative research to know whether the degree of ethical ideals can be compromised with the methods of collecting qualitative data and environmental contexts. Reviewing various literature written in English during the 1960s to date occurred in order to understand the concept of ethical ideals in gathering data and the universal perspective on ethical ideals for doing qualitative research. Then the Thai cases were added to elaborate the understanding in the Thai context. It can be concluded that the ethical ideals in collecting research data could be harmed by deception during collecting data. Researchers must be able to explain the reasons for their use in order to gain ethical approval. For environmental contexts, the discourse that this research is beneficial for the community was used. Also, the cultural differences between the researcher and the key informants affected the privacy concept which was considered to be the ethical ideal for gathering data for qualitative research.
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