Social Experimentation

Social Experimentation offers a user-friendly presentation of Donald Campbell's essential work in social experimentation. It includes exploration of the experimenting society; the compatibility of quantitative and qualitative methods of 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.

ISBN	0761904050	Volumes	1
ISBN13	9780761904052 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	620
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc	Published in	Thousand Oaks
Imprint	SAGE Publications Inc	Series ISSN	01
Format	Paperback	Series title	Sage Classics
Publication date	10 Dec 1998	Height (mm)	229
Library of Congress	98025447	Width (mm)	152
DEWEY	361.61	Spine width (mm)	23
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	Professional / Scholarly
Pages	421

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	The Experimenting Society	9
2	Pleasure/Pain Relativism and Planning the Good Society	51
3	An Inventory of Threats to Validity and Alternative Designs to Control Them	77
4	Relabeling Internal and External Validity	111
5	Legacies of Logical Positivism and Beyond	131
6	On the Rhetorical Use of Reports of Experiments	149
7	Sociological Epistemology	163
8	Sociology of Scientific Validity	179
9	Sociology of Applied Scientific Validity	207
10	"Social Construction" Is Compatible With "Validity" in Science	239
11	Regression Artifacts in Time Series	261
12	Regression Artifacts in Repeated Cross-Sectional Measures	271
13	The Regression Discontinuity Design	291
14	Design for Community-Based Demonstration Projects	313
15	Treatment-Effect Correlations	343
16	The Case-Control Method as a Quasi-Experimental Design	363
	References	375
	Author Index	393
	Subject Index	399
	About the Authors	407

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