Multilevel Synthesis
Subtitle: From the Group to the Individual (The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 4, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781402056215
Subjects: Population & demography; Social Science; Science; Sociology; Epistemology; History; Statistics; Multilevel analysis; Philosophy : Epistemology; Science / History; Social Science / Demography; Social Science : Statistics; Demography; Methodology
First sentence: This book aims to show how the multilevel approach successfully overcomes the divisions that emerged during the rise of the social sciences - specifically, here demography and statistics - from the seventeenth century to the present.
Description: This book presents a historical panorama of the evolution of demographic thought from its eighteenth-century origins up to the present day, and uses it to demonstrate how the multilevel approach can resolve some of the contradictions that have become apparent and achieve a synthesis of the different approaches employed. Part one guides the reader from period analysis to multilevel analysis, examining longitudinal and event history analysis on the way. Part two is a detailed account of multilevel analysis, its methods, and the relevant mathematical models notably as regards the type of variables being used. Numerous examples, examined across successive sections, make the book clear and easy to follow.

The theoretical and epistemological treatment of these problems, during which the foundations of sociology and demography are revisited, and the logical development that leads to the most recent approaches, are handled sufficiently rigorously to satisfy social science specialists while remaining accessible for readers new to the field. The whole adds up to a comprehensive account of progress in sociological and demographic savoir-faire, as well as being both a textbook and an assessment of the multilevel analysis that tackles one of the major problems of empirical sociology: that of integrating analysis at the individual and group levels.
Table of contents: label: I
title: From Macro/Micro Opposition to Multilevel Analysis
pagenum: 1-80; label: 1
title: Period Analysis of Social Groups
pagenum: 3-26; label: 2
title: Introduction of Seniority in the Group
pagenum: 27-42; label: 3
title: Analyzing Individual Data
pagenum: 43-66; label: 4
title: Toward a Contextual and Multilevel Analysis
pagenum: 67-80; label: II
title: Multilevel Analysis
pagenum: 81-188; label: 5
title: Defining Levels
pagenum: 83-92; label: 6
title: Linear analysis of continuous characteristics
pagenum: 93-124; label: 7
title: Analysis of discrete characteristics
pagenum: 125-160; label: 8
title: Multilevel Event-History Analysis
pagenum: 161-188; title: General conclusion
pagenum: 189-200