ISBN:
9781610446914
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Publications of Russell Sage Foundation
Parallel Title:
Print version Indicators of social change
DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
Public Policy Essays
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Social Conditions Essays
;
United States ; Social conditions
;
United States ; Social policy
;
Electronic books
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United States Social conditions
;
United States Social policy
Abstract:
Contents -- I. Introduction -- 1. Monitoring Social Change in American Society - Eleanor Bernert Sheldon and Wilbert E. Moore -- Major Structural Change and its Measurement -- A Changing American Society -- Recommendations for Future Developments -- II. The Demographic Base -- 2. Population: Trends and Characteristics - Conrad Taeuber -- Population Trends Since 1790 -- Sources and Limitations of Data -- Definitions of Included Population -- Data on Population Characteristics -- Some Future Data Needs -- III. Structural Features
Abstract:
3. Production of Goods and Services: The Measurement of Economic Growth - A. W. Sametz -- Real Per Capita GNP -- Allowing for the Increase in the Quality of Output and of Input -- Allowing for the Fall in Nonmarket ""Sales"" and the Rise of ""Industrialization"" Costs -- Developing the ""Welfare Output"" Indicator -- Social Welfare and Happiness -- 4. Labor Force and Employment Trends - Stanley Lebergott -- Patterns of Labor Force Supply -- Status Changes in the Labor Market -- Trends in the Distribution of Employment -- Stability and Change in the Labor Market -- Data Development
Abstract:
5. The Measurement of Knowledge and Technology - Daniel Bell -- Theoretical Perspective -- The Dimensions of Knowledge -- The Measurement of Technological Change -- The Structure of the Knowledge Society -- Coda -- 6. The Changing Politics of American Life - Joyce M. and William C. Mitchell -- Formal Political Structures and Processes -- Policy and Policy-Making -- Changing Political Activities of Citizens -- Changing Governmental Activities -- Some Changing Impacts of the Polity on Society -- An Agenda for Research -- 7. The Theory and Measurement of Family Change - William J. Goode
Abstract:
Renewed Interest in the Theory of Change -- Types of Problems in Family Change -- Types of Units to be Observed -- The Uses of Historical Data -- Family Change Analysis for the Future -- 8. Trends and Anti-Trends in Religious Change - N. J. Demerath III -- Discerning and Disputing Trends in Formal Religious Participation -- Yesterday's Villiage Atheist, Today's Theologian, Tomorrow's Parishioner: Trends in Religious Belief? -- Change in Church Organization: Differentiation and Bureaucratization -- The Ecumenical Tide and its Backwash -- Summary and Qualifications -- IV. Distributive Features
Abstract:
9. Consumption: A Report on Contemporary Issues - Milton Moss -- Growth in the Total Economy -- Measures of the Inequalities of Economic Growth -- Choice and Consumer Behavior -- Anticipating Effects of Consumer Behavior on the Economy -- Knowledge and the Consumer: Concluding Remarks -- 10. The Definition and Measurement of Leisure - Philip H. Ennis -- Problems of Definition -- Problems of Measurement -- Problems of Distribution -- Organizational Patterns -- The Quality of Leisure -- 11. Problems in the Measurement of Heath Status - Iwao M. Moriyama -- Infant Mortality -- Total Mortality
Abstract:
National Illness Statistics
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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I. Introduction ; Monitoring social change in American society
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II. The demographic base ; Population : trends and characteristics
,
III. Structural features ; Production of goods and services : the measurement of economic growth
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Labor force and employment trends
,
The measurement of knowledge and technology
,
The changing politics of American life
,
The theory and measurement of family change
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Trends and anti-trends in religious change
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IV. Distributive features ; Consumption : a report on contemporary issues
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The definition and measurement of leisure
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Problems in the measurement of health status
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Trends in output and distribution of schooling
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V. Aggregative features ; Social stratification and mobility : problems in the measurement of trend
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Welfare and its measurement
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