Social Experimentation (Sage Classics)

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. The annual Campbell Prizes, which honor the memory of distinguished social scientist Donald T. Campbell, recognize outstanding social science research conducted by Lehigh students.                                                                                                                                                                      Donald T. Campbell passed away on May 6, 1996, leaving a legacy of high standards for social science inquiry to Lehigh University and the national and international social science community. He was University Professor of Social Relations, Psychology, and Education at Lehigh University until he retired in 1994. Campbell received his A.B. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and he held teaching positions at Northwestern University, Syracuse University, University of Chicago, and Ohio State University. During his career, he also lectured at Oxford, Harvard, and Yale Universities. He served as president of the American Psychological Association and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Campbell received numerous honorary degrees and awards. He wrote more than 235 articles in the areas of social psychology, sociology, anthropology, education, and philosophy, covering a broad scope of topics from social science methodology to philosophy of science. The Campbell Prize honors this aspiration for excellence. The prize of $500 is awarded for social science papers of high quality, methodological originality, and societal significance, as embodied in the work of the late Donald T. Campbell. Donald Campbell and his remarkable career earned a New York Times obituary and a Lehigh University faculty memorial resolution. 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 Overview of Chapter 9 Sociology of Applied Scientific Validity Overview of Chapter 10 "Social Construction" Is Compatible with "Validity" in Science PART FOUR: DESIGNS AND TECHNICAL ISSUES Overview of Chapter 11 Regression Artifacts in Time Series Overview of Chapter 12 Regression Artifacts in Repeated Cross-Sectional Measures Overview of Chapter 13 The Regression Discontinuity Design Overview of Chapter 14 Design for Community-Based Demonstration Projects Overview of Chapter 15 Treatment-Effect Correlations Overview of Chapter 16 The Case Control Method as a Quasi-Experimental Design