A Quarterly Review of Social Reports and Research on Social Indicators, Social Trends, and the Quality-of-Life.
News included of Working Group 6 on Social Indicators and Social Reporting of the International Sociological Association.

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Summer, August 1997, Number 51

SOCIAL TRENDS:
Price Revolutions and "Deep" Social Change from the 12th Century to the Present
Dudley L. Poston (Texas A&M University) reviews The Great Wave:
Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History, by David Hackett Fischer.

SOCIAL REPORTS:
Monitoring the World: Annual Progress Report from the World Bank

Abbott L. Ferriss reviews World Development Report 1997: The State
in a Changing World.

A New Report on Living Conditions and Inequality in the European Union 1997

Kenneth C. Land (Duke University) reviews Living conditions and inequality
in the European Union 1997.

Briefly Noted -- Two Recent Reports on the Status of Children in the United States

Kenneth C. Land (Duke Unniversity) reviews KIDS COUNT Databook:
State Profiles of Child Well-Being, and America's Children: Key National
Indicators of Well-Being.

DATA:

World Wide Web Database on Aging and Health in the United States.
New Cohort Joins Survey of United States Labor Market Experiences.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Rudolf Andorka (1931-1997)
New SINET World Wide Web Homepage
A Workshop on Sustainable Development in Mannheim
The 1997 ISQOLS Conference

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