Multilevel Analysis of Individuals and Cultures

<p>In this book top specialists address theoretical methodological and empirical multilevel models as they relate to the analysis of individual and cultural data. Divided into four parts the book opens with the basic conceptual and theoretical issues in multilevel research including the fallacies of such research. Part II describes the methodological aspects of multilevel research including data-analytic and structural equation modeling techniques. Applications and models from various research areas including control values organizational behavior social beliefs well-being personality response styles school performance family and acculturation are explored in Part III. This section also deals with validity issues in aggregation models. The book concludes with an overview of the kinds of questions addressed in multilevel models and highlights the theoretical and methodological issues yet to be explored. </p><p>This book is intended for researchers and advanced students in psychology sociology social work marriage and family therapy public health anthropology education economics political science and cultural and ethnic studies who study the relationship between behavior and culture. </p>