书目名称 | Multilevel Synthesis |
副标题 | From the Group to th |
编辑 | Courgeau Daniel |
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概述 | Broadens the scope of demography with a multilevel approach.Revisits the foundations of sociology and demography.Discards the dualistic approach which pits society against the individual.From period a |
丛书名称 | The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis |
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描述 | 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 h |
出版日期 | Book 2007 |
关键词 | Demography; Epistemology; History; Methodology; Statistics; multilevel analysis; subject |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5622-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7410-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-5622-2Series ISSN 1877-2560 Series E-ISSN 2215-1990 |
issn_series | 1877-2560 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 |