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Methodology and Epistemology of Multilevel Analysis
Approaches from Different Social Sciences
The possibility to analyse human behaviours taking account of the multiple contexts in which they occur, is opening a new research avenue in social sciences. This book considers, through examples drawn from different social sciences, the methodological challenges multilevel analysis permits to answer and points out some limitations of these models. It also considers the more general philosophical and epistemological issues raised by their use, as the multilevel approach offers a mean to combine causal and systemic explanations.
List of Authors -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- 1: Multilevel modelling of educational data -- 2: From the macro-micro opposition to multilevel analysis in demography -- 3: Potentialities and limitations of multilevel analysis in public health and epidemiology -- 4: Exploring small area population structures with census data -- 5: Organisational levels and time scales in economics -- 6: Causal analysis, systems analysis, and multilevel analysis: philosophy and epistemology -- General Conclusion -- Subject index -- Author index.