Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science: Selected Papers
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with silver spine lettering; green and white dj, illustrated with white lettering, mylar cover; xix, 609 pp; bw charts and diagrams. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear.). Item #184753
ISBN: 9780226092485
Selections from the work of an influential contributor to the methodology of the social sciences. He treats: measurement, experimental design, epistemology, and sociology of science each section introduced by the editor, Samuel Overman. Contents include: Machine derived contents note: Introduction: Social Science and Donald T. Campbell by E. Samuel Overman -- Perspective on a Scholarly Career (1981) -- Part 1 -- Measurement -- 1. Definitional versus Multiple Operationism (1969) -- 2. Convergent and Discriminant Validation by the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix (1959) -- 3. Approximations to Knowledge (1981) -- 4. Social Attitudes and Other Acquired Behavioral Dispositions (1963) -- Part 2 -- Experimental Design -- 5. Factors Relevant to the Validity of Experiments in Social Settings (1957) -- 6. Prospective: Artifact and Control (1969) -- 7. Quasi-Experimental Designs (1974) -- 8. The Connecticut Crackdown on Speeding: Time-Series Data in Quasi-Experimental Analysis (1968) -- Part 3 -- Applied Social Experimentation -- 9. Administrative Experimentation, Institutional Records, and Nonreactive Measures (1967) -- 10. Reforms as Experiments -- 11. The Experimenting Society (1971) -- 12. Can We Be Scientific in Applied Social Science? (1984) -- Part 4 -- Interpretive Social Science -- 13. A Phenomenology of the Other One: Corrigible, Hypothetical, and Critical (1969) -- 14. Qualitative Knowing in Action Research (1978) -- 15. "Degrees of Freedom" and the Case Study (1975) -- Part 5 -- Epistemology -- 16. Evolutionary Epistemology (1974) -- 17. Descriptive Epistemology: Psychological, Sociological, and Evolutionary (1977) -- Part 6 -- Sociology of Science -- 18. A Tribal Method of the Social System Vehicle Carrying Scientific Knowledge (1979) -- 19. Science's Social System of Validity-Enhancing Collective Belief Change and the Problems of the Social Sciences (1986) -- Bibliography of Donald T. Campbell, 1947-1988 -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
OCLC: 17384949
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