Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: advancing methods in social epidemiology / J. Michael Oakes and Jay S. Kaufman -- The history of methods of social epidemiology to 1965 / Christopher S. Hamlin -- Indicators of socioeconomic position / Bruna Galobardes ... [et al.] -- Measuring and analyzing "race," racism, and racial discrimination / Saffron Karlsen and James Yzet Nazroo -- Measuring poverty / David M. Betson and Jennifer L. Warlick -- Measuring health inequalities / Sam Harper and John Lynch -- A conceptual framework for measuring segregation and its association with population outcomes / Sean F. Reardon -- Measures of residential community contexts / Patricia O'Campo and Margaret O'Brien Caughy -- Using census data to approximate neighborhood effects / Lynne C. Messer and Jay S. Kaufman -- Community-based participatory research : rationale and relevance for social epidemiology / Paula M. Lantz ... [et al.] -- Network methods in social epidemiology / Peter V. Marsden -- Identifying social interactions : a review / Lawrence E. Blume and Steven N. Durlauf -- Multilevel studies / Tony A. Blakely and S.V. Subramanian -- Experimental social epidemiology : controlled community trials / Peter J. Hannan -- Propensity score matching for social epidemiology / J. Michael Oakes and Pamela Jo Johnson -- Using causal diagrams to understand common problems in social epidemiology / M. Maria Glymour -- Natural experiments and instrumental variable analyses in social epidemiology / M. Maria Glymour.