| Titre | Propriétés individuelles et propriétés collectives : un problème d'analyse écologique | |
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| Auteur | Raymond Boudon | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1963, 4-3 | |
| Page | 275-299 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Raymond Boudon : Individual and collective properties: a problem in ecological analysis.
With a knowledge of the percentage of workers and that of Communist votes, is it possible to determine the proportion of workers who vote Communist ? This is a problem of a general nature which arises when the unit studied by means of a set of data is a collective and not an individual one. The author first shows how, in the absence of particular hypotheses, the problem cannot be solved. He puts forward a theory explaining three empirical phenomena : (1) the fact that ecological correlations are generally high ; (2) that they increase with the group ; (3) that they are in general curvilinear. On the basis of these results he builds up a number of models, which in certain cases provide a solution to the problem. An example, concerning Belgian electoral data, is given, to show the strategy of research which can be based on this analysis. The article contains numerous references to literature on the problem, published in the United States and in France. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1963_num_4_3_6172 |
