Social Experimentation

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-7619-0405-2
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 421 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Donald Thomas

Campbell, Donald T.

Russo, Jean M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Grafikprogrammierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Campbell, Donald T.
The annual Campbell Prizes, which honor the memory of distinguished social scientist Donald T. Campbell, recognize outstanding social science research conducted by Lehigh students.                                                                                                                                                                      Donald T. Campbell passed away on May 6, 1996, leaving a legacy of high standards for social science inquiry to Lehigh University and the national and international social science community.

He was University Professor of Social Relations, Psychology, and Education at Lehigh University until he retired in 1994. Campbell received his A.B. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and he held teaching positions at Northwestern University, Syracuse University, University of Chicago, and Ohio State University. During his career, he also lectured at Oxford, Harvard, and Yale Universities.

He served as president of the American Psychological Association and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Campbell received numerous honorary degrees and awards. He wrote more than 235 articles in the areas of social psychology, sociology, anthropology, education, and philosophy, covering a broad scope of topics from social science methodology to philosophy of science.

The Campbell Prize honors this aspiration for excellence. The prize of $500 is awarded for social science papers of high quality, methodological originality, and societal significance, as embodied in the work of the late Donald T. Campbell.

Donald Campbell and his remarkable career earned a New York Times obituary and a Lehigh University faculty memorial resolution.