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(Paperback edition of Quantitative Ecological Analysis in the Social Sciences.)
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"There is an impressively high standard of performance among the twenty-nine contributors from eleven countries whose twenty-four papers have been grouped by the editors into six parts: (1) The Logic of Ecological Inference, (2) Individual Behavior and Collective Properties, (3) Multivariate Analysis in Political Ecology, (4) Factor Analysis and Ecological Typologies, (5) Historical Dimensions of Ecological Analysis, and (6) The Organization of Ecological Data Archives."
—Rural Sociology
"The book is rich in concept, in technique, and in empirical content. It is the ideal kind of book to have available for the graduate-level course or seminar. The important ingredient, which is missing in similar volumes produced by geographers, is the substantial input of social theory. This is where the lessons for quantitative geographers continue to reside."
—The Geographical Review
"The contents of this volume admirably set forth recent methodological convergencies in the study of areal and temporal variations in social and political behavior. Although there is much to be said for the analysis of such variations in their own right, many of the analyses reported on, or suggested, in this volume attempt to relate them in some conceptually meaningful way to the behavior of individuals. These attempts do not posit that individual behavior varies directly with ecological characteristics. Instead, individual behavior is viewed as interacting dynamically with such characteristics. It is clear that social science now has the technical capability to examine these interactions. However, the equally important problem remains. There still exists a serious lack of theoretical formulations linking behavior and environment in a nontrivial manner.
"This volume goes far in narrowing the technical gap, but only a short way towards reducing the theoretical gap. Nevertheless, this work represents a significant step in the right direction. Let us hope that it soon finds its way into M.I.T.'s paperback series—a twenty-five dollar price tag does not enhance the wide circulation this book deserves."
—Journal of Regional Science
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- PublisherMit Pr
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0262540223
- ISBN 13 9780262540223
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages458
- EditorDogan Mattei, Rokkan Stein
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