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Edited By
Murray Webster, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, USA
Jane Sell, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Description
Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences is the only book providing core information for researchers about the ways
and means to conduct experiments. Its comprehensive regard for laboratory experiments encompasses ?how-to? explanations, investigations
of philosophies and ethics, explorations of experiments in specific social science disciplines, and summaries of both the history and
future of social science laboratories. No other book offers such a direct avenue to enlarging our knowledge in the social sciences.
This collection of original chapters combines instructions and advice about the design of laboratory experiments in the social sciences
with the array of other issues. While there are books on experimental design and chapters in more general methods books on design, theory,
and ethical issues, no other book attempts to discuss the fundamental ideas of the philosophy of science or lays out the methods comprehensively
or in such detail. Experimentation has recently prospered because of increasing interest in cross-disciplinary syntheses, and this book
of advice, guidelines, and observations underline its potential and increasing importance.
Audience
The book will be used in methods classes and for work in social science laboratories in sociology, marketing, political science, anthropology, economics, and psychology.
Contents
PART I. Orientation - General Issues of Experimentation
PART I Introduction
1. Why Do Experiments?
2. Developing
Experimentation in Social Sciences
3. Technological Issues Related to Experiments
4. Ethical Experiments
5. Proper Uses of Experiments
in Social Science
PART II. How to Create Experiments for Social Sciences
PART II Introduction
6. Getting Funded,
Writing Proposals
7. Eleven Rules of Effective Experimental Design and Operations
8. Training Interviewers and Experimenters
9. Operations
and Manipulations
10. Recruiting Participants
11. Some Common Experimental Problems and Some Solutions
12. Applied Experiments
PART III. Case Studies of Specific Experimental Programs
PART III Introduction
13. Status and Expectation States
Experiments in Sociology
14. Bargaining and Exchange Networks in Sociology and Economics
15. Voting and Agenda Setting in Political
Science and Economics
16. Social Dilemma Experiments in Political Science, Economics, and Sociology
17. Experiments Across the Social
Sciences
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 576 pages, publication date: JUL-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-369489-8
ISBN-10: 0-12-369489-2
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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