When laud humphreys was a sociology graduate student at washington university in st. louis, he wrote his dissertation on the “tearoom trade,” anonymous homosexual encounters in the men’s rooms of public parks. to gather data, he acted as a lookout for his subjects, but he also surreptitiously noted license-plate numbers as the men left, so he could get their names and addresses. the next year, he picked about fifty men from the “tearooms” and interviewed them in their homes, claiming to be performing a health survey. his descriptions of the interviews made it possible for many of the men (and their families) to recognize themselves when the dissertation was published. why do many sociologists consider this research method to be unethical? a. it harmed the reputation of the city of st. louis. b. it failed to protect the biographical anonymity of his subjects. c. it used terminology that was confusing to the interview subjects. d. it put humphreys at risk for arrest or retaliation.

If morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work, then the story of feldman’s bagel business lies at the very intersection of morality and economics. yes, a lot of people steal from him, but the vast majority, even though no is watching over them, do not. this outcome may surprise some people—including feldman’s economist friends, who counseled him twenty years ago that his honor-system scheme would never work. but it would not have surprised adam smith. in fact, theme of smith’s first book, the theory of moral sentiments, was the innate honesty of mankind. “how selfish soever man may be supposed,” smith wrote, “there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.” which best describes the authors’ purpose in using a quotation from adam smith’s book the theory of moral sentiments? to highlight their knowledge of scottish philosophers to prove that people are inherently dishonest to demonstrate that incentive is the driving force behind cheating to lend credibility and additional support to their conclusion