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Indicators of societal concern for mentally retarded persons
Social Indicators Research, 1976Mentally retarded persons, as a sub-population found in every culture, provide a test of a society's manner of coping with its deviant members. To obtain an objective device for measuring societal treatment, the present effort was to develop and validate a set of indicators of concern.
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Housing and Society: Need for Progressive Sustainability Indicators for Societal Sustainability
AEI 2013, 2013The current consumption pattern of natural resources is unsustainable. The industrial society is following the trend of overconsumption which has clearly led to depletion of natural resources and climate change. The real challenge is to provide a higher "quality of life" with limited "biocapacity" of the earth system. The UK government have implemented
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Indices of Income Inequality and Societal Income. An Axiomatic Approach
1978Although they had for a long period not been in the center of interest of main stream academic economics the questions of how to measure economic inequality and the welfare of a community as a whole are old and perennial ones. The problems we are concerned with in this paper are the measurement of income inequality and of the income of society as a ...
Ralph Bürk, Wilhelm Gehrig
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Knowledge structuring and societal well-being: Toward biomedical impact indicators
Knowledge in Society, 1988Advances in science and technology have been credited with improving quality of life, as well as blamed for creating or contributing to a host of problems. This article attempts to establish that a unidirectional, causal perspective of science-society linkages is untenable, that technological knowledge rather than science affects society, and that an ...
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Victims of the Genocidal Mind: Societal Indicators and Individual Case Treatment Considerations
Clinical Social Work Journal, 2007This paper uses the theoretical lens of object relations and takes the position that the paranoid-schizoid position and the related mechanism of projective identification—cornerstone pathology found in the phenomenon of fascism and totalitarianism—are not atypical, but rather live within the seemingly normal individual.
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