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How useful are experiments in sociology? In this essay I will explore how useful experiments are to sociologists. There are two different types of experiments field experiments and lab experiments which can be useful for sociologists. Both provide some advantages because they can show the relationships between cause and effect. However there are many different problems with both field and lab experiments that include the ethics, sampling, the experimenter and the Hawthorne effect. However they are not very popular as they can draw up many problems when carried out on people. When studying people ethical issues arise, it is hard to find a representative samples, the experimenter and Hawthorne effects also apply. In this essay I will discuss the two main experimental techniques and the advantages and disadvantages of using each giving examples of where sociologists have applied experimental techniques. Additionally I will show how positivists and interpretivists differ in their...

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