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Task Force

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Numerical Listing of All Cases

•   Case 01. Competence in Professional Practice
•   Case 02. Maintaining Competence
•   Case 03. Maintaining Competence
•   Case 04. Misuse of Data
•   Case 05. The Limits of Expertise
•   Case 06. Off Campus Time and Teaching Responsibilities
•   Case 07. Training and Supervising Field Workers
•   Case 08. Nondiscrimination based on national origin
•   Case 09. Nondiscrimination in Hiring Field Workers
•   Case 10. Experience or Exploitation
•   Case 11. Fair Distribution of Workload
•   Case 12. Sexual Relationships
•   Case 13. Harassment on the Basis of Ethnicity/Political Allegiance
•   Case 14. Part-time Employees
•   Case 15. Non-academic Settings
•   Case 16. Responsibilities of Academic Sociologists as Employees
•   Case 17. Responsibilities as an Employee
•   Case 18. Constraints on Research
•   Case 19. Objectivity and Incentives
•   Case 20. Disclosure of Sources of Grant Funds
•   Case 21. Avoidance of Personal Gain
•   Case 22. Avoidance of Personal Gain
•   Case 23. Dual-Role Relationships within an Organization
•   Case 24. Refusal in a Situation of Conflict of Interest with Respect to a Colleague
•   Case 25. Refusal in the Case of Conflict of Interest with Respect to a Relative Who Is Also a Colleague
•   Case 26. Businesses that Involve Students
•   Case 27. Payment for Use of Name and Reputation
•   Case 28. Accuracy of Credentials and Competence in Public Communications
•   Case 29. Attempting to Assure Accuracy
•   Case 30. Preservation of Confidential Information in Teaching
•   Case 31. Confidentiality of Information Obtained during the Course of a Sociologist's Work
•   Case 32. Enforcement Agencies and the Protection of Human Subjects
•   Case 33. Dual Roles and Student Confidentiality
•   Case 34. Respondent Confidentiality
•   Case 35. Data Ownership and Promises of Confidentiality
•   Case 36. Linking Data Sets
•   Case 37. Data Sharing and Potential Future Uses
•   Case 38. Confidentiality, Technology and Teaching
•   Case 39. Email
•   Case 40. Privacy
•   Case 41. Collegial Confidentiality
•   Case 42. Withholding Information
•   Case 43. Confidentiality of Subject Data
•   Case 44. Informed Consent with Vulnerable Populations
•   Case 45. Vulnerable Populations
•   Case 46. Vulnerable populations
•   Case 47. Informed Consent with Pre-testing Convenience Samples
•   Case 48. Stage Names and Deception: Two Examples
•   Case 51. Research By Students
•   Case 52. Student Research on a Sensitive Topic
•   Case 53. Establishing Boundaries on Projects
•   Case 54. "Informal" Surveys for Policy and Planning That "Trigger" Research Projects
•   Case 55. Teenage Youth and Coercion
•   Case 56. Dissemination of Research Findings
•   Case 57. Discovery of Error in One's Own Work
•   Case 58. Data Sharing in Ongoing Projects
•   Case 59. Data Sharing
•   Case 60. Data Sharing, Informed Consent and Confidentiality
•   Case 61. Continuing Research and Protecting Confidentiality
•   Case 62. Definition of Plagiarism: Phrasing
•   Case 63. Plagiarism in Coursework
•   Case 64. Proper Credit
•   Case 65. Rights to Authorship
•   Case 66. Establishing Mutually Acceptable Agreements
•   Case 67. Acknowledging Credit in Professional Work
•   Case 68. Multiple Submission
•   Case 69. Reporting Full Findings
•   Case 70. Dual submission -- Expansion of ideas
•   Case 71. Dual submission
•   Case 72. The Role of Editors in Dual Publications
•   Case 73. The "Small Circles" Problem
•   Case 74. Selection of Reviewers -- Perceived personal animosity between a potential reviewer and author.
•   Case 75. Selection of Reviewers  -- Competing approaches in a field
•   Case 76. Appropriateness of a paper for publication in a journal
•   Case 77. Appropriateness of reviewing an obviously poor paper
•   Case 78. Prolonged period of getting a submission reviewed
•   Case 79. Reviewing the Work of Students
•   Case 80. Acknowledging the Insights of Reviewers
•   Case 81. Citing Work Known through the Review Process
•   Case 82. Introducing Students to the Review Process
•   Case 83. Unauthorized use of an advisor
•   Case 84. False or Deceptive Statements
•   Case 85. Designing A Comprehensive Program
•   Case 86. Filling Last Minute Teaching Gaps
•   Case 87. Equality in Training Opportunities
•   Case 88. Change in the Classroom
•   Case 89. Intellectual Animosities and Teaching
•   Case 90. Citation of Sources and Use of Materials in Teaching
•   Case 91. Teaching, Research and Data Collection
•   Case 92. Maintaining Documentation of Professional and Scientific Work
•   Case 93. Clueless
•   Case 94. A Real Case Involving the Protection of Confidential Data
•   Case 95. Student Confidentiality
•   Case 96. Addressing Ethical Issues
•   Case 97. Duty to Report Ethical Violations of Others
•   Case 200. Statements about Professional Experience
•   Case 201. Maintaining Confidentiality of Faculty Hiring Discussions
•   Case 202. Legal Requests/Requirements for Confidential Data from Research Field Notes
•   Case 203. Electronic Transfer of Confidential Research Data
•   Case 204. Using False, Fabricated or Misleading Data
•   Case 205. Hiring and Non-Prejudice
•   Case 206. Hiring Practices
•   Case 207. Early Tenure Evaluation
 


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