Two-stage balloon rocket as an introduction to ‘experiments’ in sociology
The two-stage balloon rocket experiment is a useful ‘alternative’ starter to introduce the topic of experiments – a topic which […]
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Sociological Experiments
This post aims to provide some examples to some of the more unusual and interesting experiments that students can explore
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Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment
In this famously notorious experiment college students volunteered to take on the role of either prison guards or prisoners and
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Sugata Mitra’s Hole in the Wall Experiment
In 1999 Sugata Mitra put a computer connected to the internet in a hole in the wall in a slum
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Social Experiments on T.V.
There have been a lot of T.V. productions which have run ‘social experiments’ in recent years. This post simply outlines
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Bandura, Ross and Ross (1961) – The Imitative Aggressive Experiment
This classic example of a laboratory experiment suggests that children learn aggressive behaviour through observation – it is relevant to
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Experiments in Sociology – Revision Notes
Definitions, key features and the theoretical, practical and ethical strengths and limitations of laboratory and field experiments applied to sociology
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Milgram’s Obedience Experiment – Strengths and Limitations
A laboratory experiment designed to test how obedient people are to authority.
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Experiments in Sociology – An Introduction
Experiments aim to measure the effect which an independent variable (the ’cause’) has on a dependent variable (‘the effect’). The