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Introduction: advancing methods in social epidemiology / J. Michael Oakes and Jay S. Kaufman -- The history of methods of social epidemiolo gy to 1965 / Christopher S. Hamlin -- Indicators of socioeconomic posit ion / Bruna Galobardes ... [et al.] -- Measuring and analyzing "race," racism, and racial discrimination / Saffron Karlsen and James Yzet Nazr oo -- Measuring poverty / David M. Betson and Jennifer L. Warlick -- Me asuring health inequalities / Sam Harper and John Lynch -- A conceptual framework for measuring segregation and its association with populatio n outcomes / Sean F. Reardon -- Measures of residential community conte xts / Patricia O'Campo and Margaret O'Brien Caughy -- Using census data to approximate neighborhood effects / Lynne C. Messer and Jay S. Kaufm an -- Community-based participatory research : rationale and relevance for social epidemiology / Paula M. Lantz ... [et al.] -- Network method s in social epidemiology / Peter V. Marsden -- Identifying social inter actions : a review / Lawrence E. Blume and Steven N. Durlauf -- Multile vel studies / Tony A. Blakely and S.V. Subramanian -- Experimental soci al epidemiology : controlled community trials / Peter J. Hannan -- Prop ensity score matching for social epidemiology / J. Michael Oakes and Pa mela Jo Johnson -- Using causal diagrams to understand common problems in social epidemiology / M. Maria Glymour -- Natural experiments and in strumental variable analyses in social epidemiology / M. Maria Glymour.