Ethics in social sciences researches: regulation, scientific practices and controversies

Abstract

This study results from the mapping, done by means of the analysis of documents and news available in files or at the web, of scientific controversies related to the regulation of the ethics in research with human participants in Brazil. Thus, it presents the controversies related to the regulation of ethics in research with human participants in Brazil, since the implementation and operationalization of bioethics principles with the Federal Resolution 01/1988, and the successive legal changes over time till the visibility of the controversies in relation to the Humanities, Social and Social Applied Sciences (CHSSA). Later, it will present the controversies resulting from that measure and the unfolding of the public debate between CONEP and the actors of CHSSA present at the Human Sciences Work Group till the advent of the Resolution CNS 510/2016. Finally, it will present the following specificities of the research in human and social sciences and their implications to the ethic dimension: argumentative, relational and subjective logic; transparence; vulnerability, and protection of the participants. The conclusion is that the ethic dimension of the research is not separated from the methodologic dimension of each field of knowledge. Besides, it was verified that the alignment of the researchers in human and social sciences in the net of the ethic regulation is fragile.