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The Quality of Life in Large American Cities: Objective and Subjective Social Indicators
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In this paper, the concept of "quality of life" as a tool of comparative social indicators research is analyzed and the distinctiveness of these two dimensions of the quality of life is documented.Abstract:
The concept of ‘quality of life’ as a tool of comparative social indicators research is analyzed. Inter-city comparisons of objective and subjective measures of well being are presented and the distinctiveness of these two dimensions of the quality of life is documented. The paper concludes with some observations on the implications that this distinctiveness has for the use of the concept ‘quality of life’ in future social indicators research.read more
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Developing Measures of Perceived Life Quality: Results from Several National Surveys
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the current status of a series of studies oriented toward the assessment of perceived life quality and propose a conceptual model that a person's overall sense of life quality is understandable as a combination of affective responses to life "domains" which are of two types: role situations and values.
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The Human Meaning of Social Change.
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