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A central tenet of community psychology is that human behavior must be understood in context. Community and other ecologically oriented psychologists have proposed typologies of contexts for behavior (Altman &Rogoff, 1987 ;Barker, 1968; Bronfenbrenner, 1979, 1986; Murrell, 1973; Rappaport, 1977; Seidman, 1988), with the twin goals of understanding the interplay of people and contexts, and of exhorting psychologists to include ever-broader contexts of behavior in their theory, research, and intervention practices. Typically, the typologies are organized from narrower to broader contexts or from lower to higher levels of analysis
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Shinn, M., Rapkin, B.D. (2000). Cross-Level Research without Cross-Ups in Community Psychology. In: Rappaport, J., Seidman, E. (eds) Handbook of Community Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4193-6_28
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