Edited by
Murray Webster, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, USA
Jane Sell, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
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.
