Social experimentation / Donald T. Campbell, M. Jean Russo.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Campbell, Donald T. (Donald Thomas), 1916-1996
Other Authors:	Russo, M. Jean
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1999.
Series:	Sage classics ; v. 1.
Subjects:	Sociology > Methodology. Social sciences > Methodology. Experimental design.

Table of Contents:

Part I: The concept of an experimenting society
1. The experimenting society
2. Pleasure/pain relativism and planning the good society
Part II: Threats to the validity of social experiments and how they can be controlled
3. An inventory of threats to validity and alternative designs to control them
4. Relabeling internal and external validity
Part III: Theory of science for social experimentation
5. Legacies of logical positivism and beyond
6. On the rhetorical use of reports of experiments
7. Sociological epistemology
8. Sociology of scientific validity
9. Sociology of applied scientific validity
10. "Social construction" is compatible with "validity" in science
Part IV: Designs and technical issues
11. Regression artifacts in time series
12. Regression artifacts in repeated cross-sectional measures
13. The regression discontinuity design
14. Design for community-based demonstration projects
15. Treatment-effect correlations
16. The case-control method as a quasi-experimental design.

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