Gli esperimenti nelle scienze sociali: molta strada resta da fare per un dibattito maturo sul tema
Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) is a power tool to assess causality. The use of RTCs among sociologists is limited by common constraints, for example the ethical issues and the non-manipulability of several individual characteristics (i.e. social origins, education, gender, etc.). Moreover, limite...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/qds, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Italien |
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Quaderni di Sociologia
2020
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) is a power tool to assess causality. The use of RTCs among sociologists is limited by common constraints, for example the ethical issues and the non-manipulability of several individual characteristics (i.e. social origins, education, gender, etc.). Moreover, limited use is due also to the lack of knowledge and misunderstanding about how RCTs can generate robust causal inference. In this essay we confront these topics, moving from a recent Italian book about experiments (Rago, 2018). Focusing on several objections to the internal and external validity of RCTs, we show a small amount of the large body of methodological solutions provided by consolidated international literature in the field. In doing so, we try to eliminate the most common misunderstandings related to RCTs. We also argue that a larger use of RCTs may be useful for sociology, thanks to the possibility to integrate rigorous causal estimates with our deeper knowledge of mechanisms underlying social phenomena. |
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