Experimental design in the behavioral and social sciences/
Schneider. Sandra L. [ed.]
- 1st.ed.
- Los Angeles: SAGE, 2013.
- 353
VOLUME ONE: THE EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH PART ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EXPERIMENTS IN THE BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Excerpts from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation -- John Stuart Mill Rules for the Demonstration of Sociological Proof and Conclusion -- Emile Durkheim Design for Social Experiments -- F.S. Chapin The Role of Theory in Experimental Psychology -- E.G. Boring Social Experiments -- Henry Riecken and Robert Boruch The Delayed Birth of Social Experiments -- Robert Brown PART TWO: THE NOMOTHETIC-IDIOGRAPHIC DEBATE ON THE NATURE OF BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences -- Alfred Schutz 'Nomothetic' and 'Idiographic' -- James Lamiell Contrasting Windelband's Understanding with Contemporary Usage Vol. 1. The experimental approach to behavioral and social sciences research