
Multilevel Thinking
Discovering Variation, Universals, and Particulars in Cross-Cultural Research
Andrew Grogan-Kaylor(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 28. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-19-780646-3 (ISBN)
Description
Multilevel models have become very common in social research, however, there are aspects of these models that are explored only infrequently. Those that rarely make their way into courses and training materials are published articles that appear in academic journals. The author's view is that multilevel modeling offers powerful tools for understanding the multilevel data that social researchers often confront. For example, researchers are often interested in studying outcomes for diverse groups of children in different schools, residents of diverse and different neighborhoods, or individuals or families living in diverse and different countries. Such inherently multilevel data lead to analytic complexities, some of which might be well understood, while others seem to be much less often appreciated. This book offers an accessible tutorial for applied researchers, especially those who see their research having some advocacy based component. The approach of this book, while offering up some equations, is less mathematically rigorous than some of the existing texts, and written with the intent of providing a clear and practically focused guide for the applied researcher who is attempting to carry out better research with diverse populations.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
236 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-780646-3 (9780197806463)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Andrew Grogan-Kaylor
Multilevel Thinking
Discovering Variation, Universals, and Particulars in Cross-Cultural Research
E-Book
07/2025
OUP eBook
€28.49
Available for download

Andrew Grogan-Kaylor
Multilevel Thinking
Discovering Variation, Universals, and Particulars in Cross-Cultural Research
E-Book
07/2025
OUP eBook
€28.49
Available for download
Person
Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, MA, MSSW, PhD., Sandra K. Danziger Collegiate Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan School of Social Work.
Professor Grogan-Kaylor's research focuses on the associations of parenting behaviors like the use of corporal punishment, or parental expressions of emotional warmth, with child outcomes, examining how these dynamics play out across contexts, neighborhoods, and cultures. Much of his teaching is in interdisciplinary doctoral level statistics courses on advanced quantitative methods.
Professor Grogan-Kaylor's research focuses on the associations of parenting behaviors like the use of corporal punishment, or parental expressions of emotional warmth, with child outcomes, examining how these dynamics play out across contexts, neighborhoods, and cultures. Much of his teaching is in interdisciplinary doctoral level statistics courses on advanced quantitative methods.
Content
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Some Preliminary Thoughts
1: The Usefulness of Multilevel Modeling and Multilevel Thinking
2: Introduction
3: Simulated Multicountry (Multilevel) Data
4: Conceptual Framework
5: The Cross-Sectional Multilevel Model
6: The Longitudinal Multilevel Model
7: Multilevel Logistic Regression
8: Models With More Complicated Structures
9: Conclusion
Appendix A: Multilevel Multilingual
Appendix B: Multilevel Visualization
References
Index
About the Author
Some Preliminary Thoughts
1: The Usefulness of Multilevel Modeling and Multilevel Thinking
2: Introduction
3: Simulated Multicountry (Multilevel) Data
4: Conceptual Framework
5: The Cross-Sectional Multilevel Model
6: The Longitudinal Multilevel Model
7: Multilevel Logistic Regression
8: Models With More Complicated Structures
9: Conclusion
Appendix A: Multilevel Multilingual
Appendix B: Multilevel Visualization
References
Index