Multilevel Synthesis (eBook)
XXX, 228 Seiten
Springer Netherlands (Verlag)
978-1-4020-5622-2 (ISBN)
This book presents a historical panorama of the evolution of demographic thought from its eighteenth-century origins up to the present day. The book uses this 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. This is both a textbook and an assessment of the multilevel analysis that broadens the scope of demography with its approach.
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. We begin by examining how the approach connects different branches of the social sciences that conducted their observation and analysis at different levels or addressed different aspects of human complexity. Next, we describe in greater detail the statistical methods and techniques that it can use to simultaneously identify and measure the effects of the different levels examined on the characteristics studied. To introduce this work, we first provide an overview of the goal of social sciences, before discussing the various levels of aggregation at which they can operate. Social sciences start from the observation of a real-life experience and then seek to structure it according to different fields, which constitute the specific objects of study for each science. As a rule, these objects are defined independently of the scale and levels of aggregation that can be chosen to observe them. For example, the object of demography is the quantitative study of human populations, their variations, and their status, without specifying whether the level chosen is the individual, the family, the population of a town, or that of a country. Likewise, economics studies the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth, without specifying if the analysis is of an individual, a market, a firm or a nation.
General Introduction,- PART 1: From Macro/Micro Opposition to Multilevel Analysis,- Chapter 1: Period Analysis of Social Groups,- Chapter 2: Introduction of Seniority in the Group,- Chapter 3: Analyzing Individual Data,- Chapter 4: Toward a Contextual and Multilevel Analysis,- PART 2: Multilevel Analysis,- Chapter 5: Defining Levels,- Chapter 6: Linear Analysis of Continuous Characteristics,- Chapter 7: Analysis of Discrete Characteristics,- Chapter 8: Multilevel Event-History Analysis,- General Conclusion,- Appendix 1,- Appendix 2,- Bibliography,- Author Index,- Subject Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.5.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis | The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis |
| Zusatzinfo | XXX, 228 p. |
| Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Technik | |
| Schlagworte | Demography • Epistemology • History • Methodology • Multilevel analysis • Statistics • Subject |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4020-5622-2 / 1402056222 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4020-5622-2 / 9781402056222 |
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