Social experimentation

Author(s)

• Campbell, Donald Thomas
• Russo, M. Jean

Bibliographic Information

Social experimentation

by Donald T. Campbell and M. Jean Russo

（Sage classics, v. 1）

Sage Publications, c1999

• : cloth
• : pbk.

Note

Bibliographical references: p. 375-392

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book provides researchers, evaluators, and graduate students with a user-friendly presentation of Donald T. Campbell's essential work (including his thoughts on some of his classic works) in social experimentation. The book includes Campbell's exploration of the experimenting society and how experimentation can be used to improve society; the compatibility of quantitative and qualitative methods for validity seeking; threats to the validity of social experiments and how they can be controlled; the degree to which the social sciences can achieve scientific status; and the degree to which the operations, products, and consequences of science have a social impact. By including introductions for each part and detailed overviews to each article, Social Experimentation provides social scientists with useful insights into Campbell's papers in a format accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE CONCEPT OF AN EXPERIMENTING SOCIETY Overview of Chapter 1 The Experimenting Society Overview of Chapter 2 Pleasure/Pain Relativism and Planning the Good Society PART TWO: THREATS TO THE VALIDITY OF SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS AND HOW THEY CAN BE CONTROLLED Overview of Chapter 3 An Inventory of Threats to Validity and Alternative Designs To Control Them Overview of Chapter 4 Relabeling Internal and External Validity PART THREE: THEORY OF SCIENCE FOR SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION Overview of Chapter 5 Legacies of Logical Positivism and Beyond Overview of Chapter 6 On The Rhetorical Use of Reports of Experiments Overview of Chapter 7 Sociological Epistemology Overview of Chapter 8 Sociology of Scientific Validity Overview of Chapter 9 Sociology of Applied Scientific Validity Overview of Chapter 10 "Social Construction" Is Compatible with "Validity" in Science PART FOUR: DESIGNS AND TECHNICAL ISSUES Overview of Chapter 11 Regression Artifacts in Time Series Overview of Chapter 12 Regression Artifacts in Repeated Cross-Sectional Measures Overview of Chapter 13 The Regression Discontinuity Design Overview of Chapter 14 Design for Community-Based Demonstration Projects Overview of Chapter 15 Treatment-Effect Correlations Overview of Chapter 16 The Case Control Method as a Quasi-Experimental Design

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Details

• NCID: BA39996964
• ISBN:
  • 0761904042
  • 0761904050
• LCCN: 98025447
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 407 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HM24
  • DC21 : 301/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sociology -- Methodology
  • LCSH : Social sciences -- Methodology
  • LCSH : Experimental design
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA39997399