Ethics in Social Research and Its Impact on Policy Implication, Pragmatic Planning and Development

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to discuss how ethics is related to social research in connection with the collection of authentic and reliable data, use of appropriate data process and impartial data analysis for preparing an acceptable research report. Ethics is closely related to moral integrity, and values associated with appropriate methods and techniques applied for collection of reliable and authentic information that ensure the trust worthy research findings. This paper is based on secondary data collected through reviewing the relevant literatures. Main focus of this paper is to examine to what extent the research findings contribute to the knowledge of planners and policy makers in formulating the appropriate policy, pragmatic planning and finally thus may affects on development.