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Spring & Summer, May & August, Number 86 & 87

SOCIAL REPORTS and TRENDS:

Wolfgang Glatzer on Comparing the Quality of Life in the European Union and the United States of America. Wolfgang Glatzer boldly takes on the task of systematically comparing various composite/ summary indices of the quality of life in Europe and the USA.

New Estimates of Economic Well-Being for Selected OECD Countries by the Center for the Study of Living Standards. Ken Land reviews Andrew Sharpe's new research on the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB).A key feature of this index was that it organized the economic well-being domain into four dimensions: consumption flows, stocks of wealth, equality, and economic security. This paper notes that this research program has greatly advanced, both conceptually and empirically, in the intervening years.

Ruut Veenhoven on Why Sociologists Fail to Acknowledge Happiness. Veenhoven brings his expertise and knowledge of this subject to bear on the question of why sociologists cannot acknowledge several “remarkable findings” on happiness.

Papers Presented At The Xvi World Congress Of Sociology
Durban, South Africa 23-29 July 2006

Quality of life in rural areas. Processes of divergence and convergence.
-Annette Spellerberg

Interpretation on Mircea Malitza’s construct “Geomodernity” – as a “Quality of Life” new approach; complementary approaches
-Nicolae Bulz

The Development Of Indicators In New Zealand: Indicatorisation -Charles Crothers

Rasputin’s black box: How statistics are used in Norwegian municipality monitoring and administration
-Jon Hovland

What Makes for Satisfied and Dissatisfied South Africans: Results from the General Household Survey in international comparison
-Valerie Møller

UNSEEN HAPPINESS
Why sociologists fail to acknowledge findings on this matter
-Ruut Veenhoven

Does Globalization Affect Human Well-being?
-Ming-Chang Tsai

Global inequalities in girls and women’s education: How can we measure progress?
-Elaine Unterhalter