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To give the subject of this volume—multilevel analysis—its proper place within the general context of the social sciences, it is useful to start with an overview of the issues and questions raised by these disciplines. Compared with the natural sciences, the social sciences are far from fully constituted, and it is important to realise how their relevance can be improved by taking multiple aggregation levels into account.
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Courgeau, D. (2003). General Introduction. In: Courgeau, D. (eds) Methodology and Epistemology of Multilevel Analysis. Methodos Series, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4675-9_1
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