Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences

Murray Webster, Jane Sell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

576 Seiten

2007
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-369489-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Offers information for researchers about the ways and means to conduct experiments. This title also offers 'how-to' explanations of the problems and challenges faced by those involved in social science experiments. It pays attention to both practical problems and to theoretical and philosophical arguments.

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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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.8.2007
• Verlagsort: San Diego
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 880 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• ISBN-10: 0-12-369489-2 / 0123694892
• ISBN-13: 978-0-12-369489-8 / 9780123694898
• Zustand: Neuware