Essays on the Quality of Life

AvAlex C. Michalos

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

Del i serien Social Indicators Research Series

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Beskrivning

Since initiating the journal "Social Indicators Research" in 1974, Alex C. Michalos has been a pioneer in social indicators and quality-of-life research. This collection of 19 articles provides an overview of nearly 30 years of work, including papers drawn from diverse sources and papers never published before. Topics range over: the quality of life investigations connected to the problems of combining social, economic and environmental indicators; measuring the status of women in Canada; housing and migration; health and human well-being; older peoples' well-being; leisure activities and health; impact of public services, police services; criminal victimization; and feminism and ethnic relations on the quality of life. The final paper, on multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), is the author's contribution to an empirically testable new foundation for theories of utility, satisfaction and happiness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-07-31
Mått:210 x 297 x 32 mm
Vikt:916 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Social Indicators Research Series
Antal sidor:492
Upplaga:2003
Förlag:Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN:9781402013423

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Innehållsförteckning

1. Reflections on twenty-five years of quality-of-life research.- 2. Combining social, economic and environmental indicators to measure sustainable human well-being.- 3. Evaluation of equality policies for the status of women in Canada.- 4. Militarism and the quality of life.- 5. Migration and the quality of life.- 6. Job satisfaction, marital satisfaction and the quality of life.- 7. Discrepancies between perceived income needs and actual incomes.- 8. Optimism in 30 countries over a decade.- 9. Health and the quality of life.- 10. Health and other aspects of the quality of life of older people.- 11. Healthy days, health satisfaction and satisfaction with the overall quality of life.- 12. Leisure activities, health and the quality of life.- 13. Social indicators research and health-related quality of life research.- 14. Public services and the quality of life.- 15. Criminal victimization and the quality of life.- 16. Policing services and the quality of life.- 17. Feminism and the quality of life.- 18. Ethnicity, modern prejudice and the quality of life.- 19. The impact of trust on business, international security and the quality of life.- 20. Multiple discrepancies theory (MDT).