A university research team is studying how Sudanese Australian adults in Melbourne negotiate belonging and cultural hybridity in workplaces. The team plans a two-stage design:
Recruitment will occur through a paid Instagram advertisement targeted to users who follow Sudanese community pages. Participants will receive a \$40 e-gift card. The team will store raw audio files on a shared cloud drive accessible to five researchers and will use an AI transcription tool to generate interview transcripts. The researchers also intend to include three short ‘power quotes’ (verbatim) in a public-facing report and to upload a 90-second promotional video summarising findings to the faculty website.
During pilot testing, one participant’s diary entry mentioned a specific incident involving a supervisor at a named workplace and included the participant’s first name and suburb. Another participant said they would only participate if a respected community elder could sit in on the interview to ‘make sure the story is told properly’.
b. Analyse the ethical risks created by (i) the $40$ e-gift card and (ii) recruitment via targeted Instagram advertising for this ethnic group. In your response, consider voluntary participation and informed consent.
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In this unit, students explore expressions of culture and ethnicity within Australian society in two different contexts – Australian Indigenous cultures, and ethnicity in relation to migrant groups. Students critically examine the historical suppression and increasing public awareness of Australian Indigenous cultures, and investigate ethnicity as a key sociological category, considering how ethnic identities are formed, experienced, and shaped by various forces.
Students examine the sociological concepts of race and ethnicity, the process of othering, and the theory of cultural hybridity. They investigate Australia’s ethnic diversity, multiculturalism, factors influencing belonging and inclusion, and the ethical implications of research into ethnic groups, including a case study of a specific ethnic group.
how an ethical methodology was or could be applied in the study of this ethnic group.
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