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... day. To avoid too much emphasis on the feeling states engendered by the interview process itself one can ask about happiness over a longer, but still relatively short span of time. (Michael Robinson and Gerald Clore (2002, p. 950) looked at evidence on happiness reports with different time frames. T ...
... day. To avoid too much emphasis on the feeling states engendered by the interview process itself one can ask about happiness over a longer, but still relatively short span of time. (Michael Robinson and Gerald Clore (2002, p. 950) looked at evidence on happiness reports with different time frames. T ...
Knowledge, Capabilities and Human Capital Formation in Economic
... transactions, and for providing various physical labour service-inputs in ordinary production processes. More conventionally, it subsumes the creative faculties for generating new scientific and technological knowledge, the cognitive basis of entrepreneurship, and the competences for managing market ...
... transactions, and for providing various physical labour service-inputs in ordinary production processes. More conventionally, it subsumes the creative faculties for generating new scientific and technological knowledge, the cognitive basis of entrepreneurship, and the competences for managing market ...
Tanzania Human Development Report 2014
... drawn from the national research and university system with funding from the UNDP. The Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) was the implementing partner for the THDR, working in close collaboration with key partner institutions, including the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the Office ...
... drawn from the national research and university system with funding from the UNDP. The Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) was the implementing partner for the THDR, working in close collaboration with key partner institutions, including the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the Office ...
the ethics of poverty alleviation
... about the concept of poverty and the "correct" operationalisation are often not suficiently reflected in a relationship with normative theoretical assumptions. the same holds true for the normative question, why we should alleviate poverty at all. Such assumptions concern understandings of justice, ...
... about the concept of poverty and the "correct" operationalisation are often not suficiently reflected in a relationship with normative theoretical assumptions. the same holds true for the normative question, why we should alleviate poverty at all. Such assumptions concern understandings of justice, ...
Composite indicators, synthetic indicators and scoreboards: how far
... classification. In order to make such policy-relevant sets of indicators more useful and understandable, and thereby ensure that they have an impact on the policy formulation cycle, it is essential to identify an attractive and friendly way of presenting and explaining them. In recent years, Eurost ...
... classification. In order to make such policy-relevant sets of indicators more useful and understandable, and thereby ensure that they have an impact on the policy formulation cycle, it is essential to identify an attractive and friendly way of presenting and explaining them. In recent years, Eurost ...
Studying Human Society: The Sociological Approach
... one of the essential features of the study of sociology and one which is worth remembering throughout your study of this subject. ‘Private troubles of milieu’. Milieu simply means the environment, background or surroundings within which people find themselves. When Mills talks about ‘Private trouble ...
... one of the essential features of the study of sociology and one which is worth remembering throughout your study of this subject. ‘Private troubles of milieu’. Milieu simply means the environment, background or surroundings within which people find themselves. When Mills talks about ‘Private trouble ...
Disability and poverty are intricately linked
... The ALS and PRS still implicitly weight the various functional domains. In fact, they give each domain an equal weight, making mobility equivalent to sensory, for example. The development of an appropriate weighting scheme would have to empirically examine the importance of each activity domain on o ...
... The ALS and PRS still implicitly weight the various functional domains. In fact, they give each domain an equal weight, making mobility equivalent to sensory, for example. The development of an appropriate weighting scheme would have to empirically examine the importance of each activity domain on o ...
Elements of a Sociological Contribution to Happiness
... A great deal of sociological research is manifestly motivated by concern for the well-being of the people being researched. Many who write about citizenship, for example, are likely animated by the notion that exclusion from citizenship is detrimental to well-being: when immigrants (and their child ...
... A great deal of sociological research is manifestly motivated by concern for the well-being of the people being researched. Many who write about citizenship, for example, are likely animated by the notion that exclusion from citizenship is detrimental to well-being: when immigrants (and their child ...
Composite list of countries
... As per the web page, for a country to be added to the list they must satisfy all three criteria. To graduate from the list a country must meet the thresholds for two of the three criteria in two consecutive triennial reviews by the CDP. World Bank List of Developing Nations According to the World Ba ...
... As per the web page, for a country to be added to the list they must satisfy all three criteria. To graduate from the list a country must meet the thresholds for two of the three criteria in two consecutive triennial reviews by the CDP. World Bank List of Developing Nations According to the World Ba ...
Composite list of countries
... modern services in GDP); (d) merchandise export concentration; and (e) the handicap of economic smallness (as measured through the population in logarithm); and the percentage of population displaced by natural disasters. As per the web page, for a country to be added to the list they must satisfy a ...
... modern services in GDP); (d) merchandise export concentration; and (e) the handicap of economic smallness (as measured through the population in logarithm); and the percentage of population displaced by natural disasters. As per the web page, for a country to be added to the list they must satisfy a ...
Slide 1
... Measuring segregation by an ordinal category • Segregation, (whether using an approach based on entropy or one based on diversity) is relatively flat across most of the middle of the income percentile distribution in both places, but increases or decreases sharply at the extremes of the distributio ...
... Measuring segregation by an ordinal category • Segregation, (whether using an approach based on entropy or one based on diversity) is relatively flat across most of the middle of the income percentile distribution in both places, but increases or decreases sharply at the extremes of the distributio ...
sufficiency economy: a happiness development
... development process with an aim to develop true happiness that is beyond the basic, hedonic happiness. The means to reach happiness at the higher levels is mind training basically for right understanding, right thinking and right action. The mind is critically important to determine decisions and ac ...
... development process with an aim to develop true happiness that is beyond the basic, hedonic happiness. The means to reach happiness at the higher levels is mind training basically for right understanding, right thinking and right action. The mind is critically important to determine decisions and ac ...
Equality of Capacity
... him more income in a pure distribution problem. Utilitarianism, I had complained, will give him less. The Difference Principle will give him neither more nor less on grounds of his being a cripple. His utility disadvantage will be irrelevant to the Difference Principle. This may seem hard, and I thi ...
... him more income in a pure distribution problem. Utilitarianism, I had complained, will give him less. The Difference Principle will give him neither more nor less on grounds of his being a cripple. His utility disadvantage will be irrelevant to the Difference Principle. This may seem hard, and I thi ...
Sociology and happiness: An interview with Zygmunt Bauman
... Domestic Product (GDP) and the Human Development Index (HDI), which are seen as not taking sustainability into account. In particular, GDP is seen as inappropriate, as the usual ultimate aim of most people is not to be rich, but to be happy and healthy. Furthermore, it is believed that the notion of ...
... Domestic Product (GDP) and the Human Development Index (HDI), which are seen as not taking sustainability into account. In particular, GDP is seen as inappropriate, as the usual ultimate aim of most people is not to be rich, but to be happy and healthy. Furthermore, it is believed that the notion of ...
The happiness of sociality. Economics and eudaimonia: A
... return to our set point after a brief period, due to the mechanism of ‘hedonic adaptation’. From this reason, set point theory and ‘hedonic treadmill’ are often used as synonymous. Set-point theory explanations are very popular nowadays in economics. Kahneman et al. (2004) distinguish between two ty ...
... return to our set point after a brief period, due to the mechanism of ‘hedonic adaptation’. From this reason, set point theory and ‘hedonic treadmill’ are often used as synonymous. Set-point theory explanations are very popular nowadays in economics. Kahneman et al. (2004) distinguish between two ty ...
Gender, poverty and social justice
... Somers and Block’s (2005) historical analysis of the shifts in welfare regime in the 1996 US Personal Responsibility Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act in comparison to the English New Poor Laws of 1834 clearly revealed similar ideas regarding the conversion of poverty as welfare deficit to pover ...
... Somers and Block’s (2005) historical analysis of the shifts in welfare regime in the 1996 US Personal Responsibility Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act in comparison to the English New Poor Laws of 1834 clearly revealed similar ideas regarding the conversion of poverty as welfare deficit to pover ...
sociological theories of subjective well-being
... areas assessed in this study was the satisfaction with promotion chances. Contrary to expectation, the satisfaction with this aspect of Army life appeared to be higher in units where promotion chances were low, such as the military police, than in units where promotion chances were high, such as the ...
... areas assessed in this study was the satisfaction with promotion chances. Contrary to expectation, the satisfaction with this aspect of Army life appeared to be higher in units where promotion chances were low, such as the military police, than in units where promotion chances were high, such as the ...
V - Institute for Research on Poverty
... Our three axioms are intimately related to the Lorenz criterion. Before we can discuss this relationship, however, we need to define this concept which, for the reader who is unfamiliar with it, is explained in the two paragraphs that follow. In order to understand the Lorenz criterion it is first n ...
... Our three axioms are intimately related to the Lorenz criterion. Before we can discuss this relationship, however, we need to define this concept which, for the reader who is unfamiliar with it, is explained in the two paragraphs that follow. In order to understand the Lorenz criterion it is first n ...
Working Paper Number 107 Does it matter that we don`t agree on
... either moral or political considerations suggest should be addressed. For example, one approach, justified on political or moral grounds is to define the poverty line at a level at which people can realise a full or decent life, or more ambitiously a good society. Essentially, rights based approache ...
... either moral or political considerations suggest should be addressed. For example, one approach, justified on political or moral grounds is to define the poverty line at a level at which people can realise a full or decent life, or more ambitiously a good society. Essentially, rights based approache ...
lifestyle - Netwerk Duurzame Mobiliteit
... motivation, and thought processes, and define the way in which he/she lives; lifestyle activities include diet, level of physical activity; substance abuse; social and personal interactions.” (Segen’s Medical Dictionary, 2011) “Lifestyle is expressed in both work and leisure behaviour patterns and ( ...
... motivation, and thought processes, and define the way in which he/she lives; lifestyle activities include diet, level of physical activity; substance abuse; social and personal interactions.” (Segen’s Medical Dictionary, 2011) “Lifestyle is expressed in both work and leisure behaviour patterns and ( ...
Construct the Model of Employees’ Happiness Index
... (1) Psychological reference frame. On the social level, social members’ well-being will be affected by their psychological reference frame. For example, in a closed society, due to lack of comparison with other sociality, although the society's material development level is not high, they lack of co ...
... (1) Psychological reference frame. On the social level, social members’ well-being will be affected by their psychological reference frame. For example, in a closed society, due to lack of comparison with other sociality, although the society's material development level is not high, they lack of co ...
Psychopharmacological enhancement: a conceptual framework Open Access
... readily make objective assessments of his abnormal sense of self, his low mood, and of the effects of particular antidepressant medications. Fortunately psychiatry has been able to demonstrate that depression is associated with biochemical disturbances, and that antidepressant agents are able to imp ...
... readily make objective assessments of his abnormal sense of self, his low mood, and of the effects of particular antidepressant medications. Fortunately psychiatry has been able to demonstrate that depression is associated with biochemical disturbances, and that antidepressant agents are able to imp ...
Social choice problem in Capability Approach
... According to Sen, capability is defined as a set of functionings vectors which are realized by using goods and services. When a shortage relative to the basic capability is recognized for an individual, it must be compensated through social policies. However, what functionings vector actually achiev ...
... According to Sen, capability is defined as a set of functionings vectors which are realized by using goods and services. When a shortage relative to the basic capability is recognized for an individual, it must be compensated through social policies. However, what functionings vector actually achiev ...
Amartya Sen`s Concept of Human Rights: Agency`s Vital Role
... Bengal famine of 1943, even when the individual has nothing to do with its occurrence, but he would have chosen it had he the chance and means. In other words, institutions and others also can bring about to the realization of desired goals in human rights. Because there are varieties and complexiti ...
... Bengal famine of 1943, even when the individual has nothing to do with its occurrence, but he would have chosen it had he the chance and means. In other words, institutions and others also can bring about to the realization of desired goals in human rights. Because there are varieties and complexiti ...
Rethinking the Human and the Social:
... relation is not just a social relation.ii Similarly ethics is not just acting in accordance with social conventions but acting in accordance with post-conventional awareness and realizations where, as Habermas says, conventional norms of society turn out to be “instances of problematic justice” (Hab ...
... relation is not just a social relation.ii Similarly ethics is not just acting in accordance with social conventions but acting in accordance with post-conventional awareness and realizations where, as Habermas says, conventional norms of society turn out to be “instances of problematic justice” (Hab ...