Contextual-Effects Models: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Blalock, Hubert M.

doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.10.1.353

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“…Social environments shape behavior directly through various forms of influence such as peer pressure and social learning, and indirectly by dictating what opportunities or social positions are available (Blalock 1984; Manski 2000; Schelling 1971). But while the sociological literature on contextual effects is vast, the subset of that work which focuses on decisions emphasizes the causes or consequences of those decisions more than the processes through which they are made.…”

Section: The Role Of Contextual Factors In Decision Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decision-Making Processes in Social Contexts

Bruch¹,

2017

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Over the past half-century, scholars in the interdisciplinary field of Judgment and Decision Making have amassed a trove of findings, theories, and prescriptions regarding the processes ordinary people enact when making choices. But this body of knowledge has had little influence on sociology. Sociological research on choice emphasizes how features of the social environment shape individual behavior, not people’s underlying decision processes. Our aim in this article is to provide an overview of selected ideas, models, and data sources from decision research that can fuel new lines of inquiry on how socially situated actors navigate both everyday and major life choices. We also highlight opportunities and challenges for cross-fertilization between sociology and decision research that can allow the methods, findings, and contexts of each field to expand their joint range of inquiry.

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Section: The Role Of Contextual Factors In Decision Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decision-Making Processes in Social Contexts

Bruch¹,

2017

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“…If guided by well developed conceptual models clearly specifying which variables are to be studied at which level,28 these analyses can potentially assess whether individuals' health is shaped by not only “individual” or “household” characteristics (for example, individual or household income) but also “population” or “area” characteristics; the latter may be “compositional” (for example, proportion of people living in poverty) or “contextual” (irreducible to the individual level, for example, income distribution, population density, or absence of facilities, such as supermarkets, libraries, or health centres) 3031 …”

Section: Multi-level Analysismentioning

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A glossary for social epidemiology

Krieger¹

2001

Journal of Epidemiology &Amp; Community Health

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“…It thus allows for macro processes that are presumed to have an impact on individuals over and above the effects of individual level variables. 6 The terms "contextual analysis" and MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS have sometimes been used synonymously, [8][9][10] and both approaches are similar in allowing the investigation of how group level (or macro) and individual level (or micro) variables (as well as their interactions) are related to individual level outcomes. However, MULTILEVEL MODELS are more general than the original contextual models in that (1) they allow (and account for) the possibility of residual correlation between individuals within groups; and (2) they allow examination of between group variability and the factors associated with it.…”

Section: Contextual Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%