Book contents
- Experimental Sociology
- Methodological Tools in the Social Sciences
- Experimental Sociology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Tables, and Boxes
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Philosophy and Methodology of Experimentation in Sociology
- Part II The Practice of Experimentation in Sociology
- Part III Methodological Challenges of Experimentation in Sociology
- References
- Index
1 - Introduction
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Book contents
- Experimental Sociology
- Methodological Tools in the Social Sciences
- Experimental Sociology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Tables, and Boxes
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Philosophy and Methodology of Experimentation in Sociology
- Part II The Practice of Experimentation in Sociology
- Part III Methodological Challenges of Experimentation in Sociology
- References
- Index
Summary
In the introduction, the field of experimental sociology is outlined and the core concepts of manipulation and control, as well as two crucial conditions of control, are introduced. The random allocation of participants to the treatment and the control group ensures that exogenous factors are distributed equally across these groups, which allows to evaluate the effect of the manipulated condition. Incentivization helps operationalizing behavioral assumptions into the experimental condition. The chapter then briefly elaborates on the topics of the following chapters.
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- Experimental SociologyOutline of a Scientific Field, pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024