week 10 dq post

Professor Plum has almost no real chance of his study being anything other than an egotistic and arrogant application of his own wants/needs/desires to publish or perish (Broch, trygve. broch@inn. n., & Skille, 2019). Food and nutrition is a subject that the culture itself controls. If the culture allows for good solid family dining then the businesses in the area would only cater to said types of, on the other hand if the culture was almost exclusively into fast food, then that is what the people would predominantly eat.

5 years ago, I lived about 10 minutes from Disney. Right now, I live in a totally different area of the country, I lived here about 20 years ago. Then the ratio of oriental type places to eat was about even with the distribution of the rest of the types of food (Foster, 2019). Now you can hardly throw a rock and not hit one or two oriental restaurants. The culture changed and now the philosophy of the culture is to eat more oriental.

Ethically the = x of this professors wants are starting from the worst possible ethical position. His ideas might be good, but to change the culture will require an entirely different approach. He plans to change the culture from an absolutely wrong ethical stance.

With the parameters set in the description; this study breaks the following rules:

1)Ethical considerations; are the ethics of both cultures being taken in account? Some collectivism cultures operate based on what is best for the group. For x culture it might be collectivism that is what allows for such a better form of diet. Or it might be the economy, example some Asian cultures have such a low economy that the amount of food a single person might eat in say New York is similar to the amount 3 or more might eat in a rural area of say Japan. The Japanese collection of people have no choice but to eat what they can collect, while in New York the amounts have a wide range of factors.

2)Privacy considerations; this study ignores flat out any even small mention of anything to do with privacy. The researcher is starting out with needing to find the =x without paying attention to their own or anyone elses privacy issues. As stated, the researcher has no contact with the potential subject of the study, the research wants to put their private life on display to people who might not want to have the researchers in their private lives.

3) Deception, a huge amount of deception is required to conduct the study as described. Ignoring huge swaths of data in order to arrive at the intended publish or perish =x (Misheva, 2019). Which is the real reason for the study, “why does this culture eat different than my culture” that question alone is not about the health benefits of the home culture but centered on what might be popular for the professor to study. In the 1980s, it was rare for a publication e.g. Cosmopolitan, McCall’s, etc. to not publish at least one new “fad diet” at least once every 2 or 4 times the magazine was put out. The American people wanted to try out every fad diet the writers could find. The collectivism of the culture was at that point I want to lose 50 lbs. in 2 weeks maybe 3 weeks, give me a diet where I can do that. Not a single one would but the collectivism of the culture that is what they wanted to hear. Made no difference to the individuals that said results were absolutely impossible. This study seems to be in that same line of trying to publish an article about the latest “fad diet” but with some science added from another cultures normal eating patterns. Nothing ethical about this.

Reorganize the entire concept of the study (Ice, Dufour, & Stevens, 2015). Start from zero, either pick something else to study or realize this subject is not a 10,000-word piece. This study will achieve zero goals other than to publish. Think of some other study which will break less ethical rules and regulations, to publish with. Or start from the rules of sociology, start with finding out what other similar studies have been done on this subject. Contact those authors, contact sociologists and social workers in the area. Start with asking them questions about their culture and the lowest classes in their culture’s hierarchy. Start from there, but this subject is not a small deal subject.

References

Broch, T. B. 1. trygve. broch@inn. n., & Skille, E. Å. . (2019). Performing sport political legitimacy: A cultural sociology perspective on sport politics. Sociology of Sport Journal, 36(2), 171–178. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1123/ssj.2017-0204

Foster, V. (2019). The return of the surreal: Towards a poetic and playful sociology. Qualitative Sociology Review, 15(1), 148–164. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.18778/1733-8077.15.1.07

Ice, G.H., Dufour, D. L., & Stevens, N. J. (2015). Disasters in field research: Preparing for and coping with unexpected events. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield.

Misheva, V. (2019). Jane Addams and the lost paradigm of sociology. Qualitative Sociology Review, 15(2), 216–228. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.18778/1733-8077.15.2.14