Assessing Risk & Benefit Your Response: Do the potential benefits of this study justify the foreseeable risks? Yes No Why or why not? SUBMIT Balancing Risk & Benefit: Social Sciences A sociological researcher wants to use a snowball sampling technique to interview workers in a telephone call centre about their working conditions. This technique involves asking current participants in the study (recruited from advertisements) to identify others who may be interested in doing the study. It is well known that the employer is resistant to all outsiders who may alter the call centre's practices. FORESEEABLE RISKS: participants know who they identified for recruitment, so not all participants have the same level of privacy the employer may discover the study and punish or fire those who participated some people may feel conflicted about giving out colleagues' names without their permission POTENTIAL BENEFITS: employee hardships in the industry may be exposed participants may feel relief having told their stories this company and others may change their practices because of the research