Employing ethical principles to address specific issues such as social research or medical practice is called:

Employing ethical principles to address specific issues such as social research or medical practice is called:

• A. Meta-ethics
• B. Normative ethics
• C. Applied ethics
• D. Practical ethics

Answer: (C)

Applying ethical principles to real-world problems in specific areas like social research or medical practice is applied ethics. This field takes broad moral theories about what’s right or wrong and uses them to analyze concrete questions in particular domains—such as how to obtain informed consent in research, how to balance patient autonomy with beneficence, or how to protect participants’ privacy. Meta-ethics, by contrast, deals with the nature and meaning of ethical concepts themselves—questions like whether moral judgments are objective or culturally relative. Normative ethics explores general theories about what makes actions right or wrong (for example, utilitarianism or deontology) but does not focus on applying those theories to a specific field. Practical ethics is sometimes used interchangeably with applied ethics, but the standard term for applying moral principles to real-world domains is applied ethics.

Applying ethical principles to real-world problems in specific areas like social research or medical practice is applied ethics. This field takes broad moral theories about what’s right or wrong and uses them to analyze concrete questions in particular domains—such as how to obtain informed consent in research, how to balance patient autonomy with beneficence, or how to protect participants’ privacy.

Meta-ethics, by contrast, deals with the nature and meaning of ethical concepts themselves—questions like whether moral judgments are objective or culturally relative. Normative ethics explores general theories about what makes actions right or wrong (for example, utilitarianism or deontology) but does not focus on applying those theories to a specific field. Practical ethics is sometimes used interchangeably with applied ethics, but the standard term for applying moral principles to real-world domains is applied ethics.