Social Measurement and Social Indicators/ Issues of Policy and Theory Carley,Michael

1 Introduction to the Scope of Social Indicators
Social indicators-a spectrum of activity
First problems with social indicators
The antecedents ofmodem social indicators
The social indicators movement
Social indicators for policy-making
2 Definitions and Dimensions of Social Indicators
Early attempts at defining social indicators
Defining social indicators by their policy use
Social indicators in a statistical hierarchy
Is a definition ofsocial indicators worthwhile?
Other terminology in social indicators
Social reporting and social accounting
Subjective social indicators and the quality of life
Issues in quality-of-Iife studies
Summary
3 Social Indicator Systems
Programmatic development
Development by social goal area
Development by life-cycle
Development from a theoretical base
Conclusion
4 Social Theory and Models
General aspects of social theory
Theory and models
Theoretically based social indicators
Difficulties associated with social indicator modelling
Difficulties associated with aggregation
A conceptual framework for social indicator research
Summary and conclusions
5 Social Indicators and the Policy-making Process
Who will use them?
Accusations of quantificationism
Value-judgements and social indicators
Social indicators and value-weighting schemes
Value-weighting and distributional equity
The elements of policy-making
Academic research and policy analysis
Overcoming political dilemmas
A call for more policy-modelling
Conclusion
Summary
6 National Social Reporting
Social reporting in the United Kingdom
Social reporting in the United States
Social reports in other countries
The audience for social reports
Major issues in social reporting
Conclusion
7 Social Indicators at the Urban Level
Intra-urban social indicators
Indicators for inter-urban analysis
Social indicators for performance measurement
Summary
8 Conclusion
Appendix: Notes on Further Reading
References
Index