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The Social Indicators Movement: Progress, Paradigms, Puzzles, Promise and Potential Research Directions

Shek, Daniel T. L. ; Wu, Florence K. Y.

Social indicators research, 2018-02, Vol.135 (3), p.975-990 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media

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  • Título:
    The Social Indicators Movement: Progress, Paradigms, Puzzles, Promise and Potential Research Directions
  • Autor: Shek, Daniel T. L. ; Wu, Florence K. Y.
  • Assuntos: Constructionism ; Critical theory ; Feasibility ; Historical development ; Human Geography ; Methodological approaches ; Microeconomics ; Paradigms ; Poverty ; Public Health ; Quality of life ; Quality of Life Research ; Social change ; Social development ; Social indicators ; Social programs ; Social progress ; Social research ; Social Sciences ; Sociology ; Well being
  • É parte de: Social indicators research, 2018-02, Vol.135 (3), p.975-990
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  • Descrição: This paper is a response to the article entitled “Fifty years after the Social Indicators Movement: Has the promise been fulfilled?” by Ken Land and Alex Michalos (2015) which constitutes a careful review of the historical development of the Social Indicators Movement, utility of social indicators in shaping the concept of quality of life and subjective well-being, and issues deserving social indicators research in future. In this response paper, we join in the discussion by highlighting five issues—progress, paradigms, puzzles, promise, and potential research directions of social indicators research. In terms of progress, while we have accomplished many tasks proposed by Solomon et al. (The quality of life, Sage, London 1980), some of them are yet to be achieved. Regarding research paradigms surrounding social indicators, researchers have primarily used positivistic or post-positivistic orientation to conduct and interpret social indicators research, with relatively fewer studies using interpretive, constructionist or critical theory perspective. There are also several puzzles deserving consideration. These include (a) the use of “other types of evidence”, particularly qualitative data; (b) evaluation of social programs; (c) feasibility of assessing “social progress”; (d) choice of social indicators; (e) interpretation of findings; (f) methodological debates; and (g) explanations for social change. Finally, the promise of social indicators research to promote quality of life and potential future research directions of social indicators research are discussed.
  • Editor: Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media
  • Idioma: Inglês
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