Social Experiments

Social Experiments

1. social experiments are based on empirical evidence

2. The dependent variable: is the quality the researcher is interested in

3. The independent variable: is the one the researcher thinks may have an impact on the dependant variable

4. Hawthorne effect

5. Placebo effect

6. bahvioural study of obedience Stanley Milgram 1963

7. Stanford prison experiment, Philip Zimbardo, 1971

8. On being insane in insane places, David Rosenhan, 1973

9. Stanley Milgram- Small World Problem

10. Rosenthal- Pygmalion in the classroom

11. Research is based on social encounters in which expectations, perceptions and responses all play out

12. Humphreys, Tea Room Trade

13. Non particpant observation and experiments

    • sexual behaviour in human male
    • sexual behaviour in human female

14. aim was to understand plain facts about sexual behaviour not the meanings people attach to their sexual acts