Social Experimentation: A Method for Planning and Evaluating Social Intervention - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483245330 ISBN 13: 9781483245331

Publisher: Academic Press, 2013

Synopsis

Social A Method for Planning and Evaluating Social Intervention summarizes the available knowledge about how randomized experiments might be used in planning and evaluating ameliorative social programs.The book presents various aspects of social experimentation - design, measurement, execution, sponsorship, and utilization of results. Chapters are devoted to topics on experimentation as a method ofprogram planning and evaluation; experimental design and analysis; institutional and politicalfactors in social experimentation; and aspects of time and institutional capacity.Sociologists will find the book a valuable piece of reference.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483245330
• ISBN 13: 9781483245331
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Riecken Henry W.