ISBN:
9789400724211
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (592 pages)
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DDC:
306.072
Keywords:
Social indicators - Research
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The aim of the Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research is to create an overview of the field of Quality of Life (QOL) studies in the early years of the 21st century that can be updated and improved upon as the field evolves and the century unfolds.
Abstract:
Intro -- Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: Prologue: The Development and Evolution of Research on Social Indicators and Quality of Life (QOL) -- The Historical Development of the Field of Social Indicators and QOL Studies -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in the 1960s and Pre-1960s -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Sociology, Economics, and Political Science -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Health and Medicine -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Management -- Social Indicators and QOL in the 1970s and 1980s -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Sociology, Psychology, Economics, and Political Science -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Health and Medicine -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Management -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Marketing -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in the 1990s and 2000s -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Sociology, Psychology, Economics, and Political Science -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Planning -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Health and Medicine -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Management -- Social Indicators and QOL Research in Marketing -- Uses of Social Indicators and QOL Research -- The Enlightenment Function -- The Policy Analysis Function -- The Medical Function -- The Managerial Function -- Prospects for the Future -- References -- 2: The Good Life: Eighth Century to Third Century BCE -- Introduction -- General Issues -- Tragedy -- Orphism -- Politics -- Homer (Eighth Century BCE) -- Hesiod of Ascra (Late Eighth/Early Seventh Century BCE) -- Pythagoras of Samos (c. 560-480 BCE) -- Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 540-480 BCE) -- Theognis (Late Sixth and Early Fifth Century BCE) -- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (c. 500-428 BCE).
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