Advancing methods in social epidemiology / Jay S. Kaufman and J. Michael Oakes -- The measurement of socioeconomic status / J. Michael Oakes and Kate E. Andrade -- Measuring and analyzing 'race', racism, and racial discrimination / Saffron Karlsen and James Yzet Nazroo -- Measuring poverty / David M. Betson and Jennifer L. Warlick -- Health inequalities : measurement and decomposition / 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 Ph.D. and Margaret O'Brien Caughy -- Community-based participatory research : rationale and relevance for social epidemiology / Paula M. Lantz, Barbara A. Israel, Amy J. Schulz, and Angela G. Reyes -- Social network analysis for epidemiology / David A. Shoham and Lynne C. Messer -- Fieldwork with in-depth interviews : how to get strangers in the city to tell you their stories / Melody L. Boyd and Stefanie DeLuca -- Experimental social epidemiology : controlled community trials / Peter J. Hannan -- Propensity score matching for social epidemiology / J. Michael Oakes and Pamela Jo Johnson -- Longitudinal approaches to social epidemiologic research / Magdalena Cerd�a and Katherine M. Keyes -- Fixed effects and difference-in-differences / Erin C Strumpf, Sam Harper, and Jay S Kaufman -- Fixed versus random effects models for multilevel and longitudinal data / Ashley Schempf Hirai, and Jay S. Kaufman -- Mediation analysis in social epidemiology / Arijit Nandi and Tyler J. VanderWeele -- A roadmap for estimating and interpreting population intervention parameters / Jennifer Ahern and Alan E. Hubbard -- Natural experiments and instrumental variables analyses in social epidemiology / Maria Glymour, Stefan Walter, and Eric J. Tchetgen -- Using causal diagrams to understand common problems in social epidemiology / M. Maria Glymour.