Social Experimentation [Paperback]

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.

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.

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<lsó