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Contents @toc4:Preface xxx @toc2:1. What Is an Experiment? 1 2. Theory and the Scientific Method 000 3. Empirically Driven Experiments 000 4. Theory-Driven Experiments 000 5. Experiments As Social Relations 000 6. The Forms of Controlled Investigation 000 @toc4:Notes 000 References 000 Index 000

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David Willer is the Scudder Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. Henry A. Walker is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona.

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"Rigorous yet lucid, practical yet profound, this first-rate scholarly contribution is an excellent introduction to the logic of experimental research in the social sciences, ideal for methodology classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Especially noteworthy is the way Willer and Walker anchor experimental sociology and social psychology in social science more broadly, and demonstrate that these disciplines can indeed be sciences in the same sense that physics is a science." - William Sims Bainbridge "Readers will enjoy Willer and Walker's informative coverage of the classic sociological experiments such as Bales, Asch and Berger, including a much-needed critique of Milgram's obedience experiments. The authors provide a clear exposition of experimental methods, based on a distinction between theory-driven experiments and empirically driven experiments using the method of difference. They have written the definitive work on experiments in sociology." - Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania "This book is brimming with examples, classic - including Archimedes and Aristotle! - as well as contemporary, of social research making it both accessible and useful to a wide audience." - Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota "This book is a must: It teaches the different experimental aims and designs; it shows how to link experiments to theory and important social questions; it demonstrates that experiments in the physical sciences and sociology follow the same logic; it gives instructions how to select subjects and treat them in an ethical way; and, above all, it motivates by delivering many examples of answers to fundamental social questions already provided by experiments in the past." - Frans N. Stokman, ICS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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