Discuss the ethical issues involved in this study? Could the research have been done any other way that you deem to be ethical?
Creation Of An Agency
The term contract can be defined as an agreement which is legally binding exists between two parties. This document provides the powers & duties to be performed by both the parties to the contract. An agreement can become a contract only when it satisfies the legal requirements. Hence the parties in this contract can enter into the contract either by themselves or through a third party. The concept of agency arises if the person enters into the contract through a third party. The third party here is called as the agent & the person on whose behalf he acts is known as the principal.
Administrative Agencies
An administrative agency is a government body which is given the authority to supervise and implement certain legislative acts. Apart from the term agency, they are also referred by the names corporations, commissions; departments etc. a group of experts in their respective fields together form the administrative agency. Majority of the administrative agencies that has an impact on day to day activities are independent agencies.
Laud Humphrey 1970. Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places. (Chicago: Aldine).
In his book, Tearoom Trade (1970), Humphrey studied homosexual behavior by observing casual same-sex acts by male strangers who met at public restrooms in a park, referred to as “tearooms” by participants. He pretended to be a homosexual and acted as the lookout, known as the “watch queen,” whenever possible—a perfect opportunity to observed. To find out more about the participants, he secretly took down their license plate numbers when possible and used the police register to obtain their names and addresses. In disguise, he went to these men’s homes under the pretense that he was conducting a health survey, to gather more information about them.
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