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 answe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Courgeau, Daniel
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
Series:Methodos series ; 2.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.