文档介绍：The Postmodern Experiment: Science and Ontology in Experimental Social
Psychology
Augustine Brannigan
The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 48, No. 4. (Dec., 1997), pp. 594-610.
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Augustine Brannigan
The postmodern experiment: science and
ontology in experimental social psychology*
ABSTRACT
Traditional debates over the validity of operationalization in psychological experi-
ments overlook the fact that they often simply dramatize, as opposed to discover,
telling social phenomena. Many landmark experiments survive otherwise fatal
questioning of their validity because of their moral, on