The approach of ethics from the perspective of epistemic autonomy comes to bring together the professional concerned with the ethical reflection on his own practice and his own epistemological, ethical and ethical horizon, with those of the professional ethic who are addressing the ethical significance of practice in the various fields of social research, no more. This editorial proposes a number of directions of interest in the field of ethics in social science research, as the preferred domains, without being exclusive to the on-going Journal of Ethics in Social Studies.