Comments on: Fifty Years After the Social Indicators Movement

2017 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
pp. 969-973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferran Casas
Keyword(s):  
Social Indicators ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Indicators Movement

Disappointments and Legacies of Social Indicators

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Eleanor Innes
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Social Indicators Movement ◽  
Science Research Council

The social indicators movement has been a disappointment to its originators. By the late 1970s, at least in the US, the great hopes for social indicators to become a major influence on public policy had been tempered. The outpouring of literature using the term ‘social indicators’ dwindled. Policy scientists turned their attention to other topics or found new labels for their interests. The Social Science Research Council closed its Social Indicators Research Center in Washington, DC and stopped publishing its newsletter. And in the US no annual social report seemed likely to be institutionalized. Many observers decided the social indicators movement was a failure.

The Evolution of a Movement

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank M. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Social Indicators Movement ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

The Social Indicators Movement which emerged in the late 1960s was motivated by a broad and appealing idea. It is important to monitor changes over time in a wide range of quality of life, both for a population as a whole and for its significant subgroups, because such information, when combined with other data, can generate new knowledge about how to increase quality of life through more effective social policies.

Whatever Happened to Social Indicators? A Symposium

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank M. Andrews ◽  
Martin Bulmer ◽  
Abbott L. Ferriss ◽  
Jonathan Gershuny ◽  
Wolfgang Glatzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Individual Assessment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Indicators Movement ◽  
National Governments

ABSTRACTTwenty years ago the publication of Toward a Social Report by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare was hailed as a major forward step in developing indicators of conditions in society into a national system of social accounting of relevance to public policy. The resulting social indicators movement quickly mobilized able social scientists to produce a variety of indicators monitoring trends in their society, and internationally. National governments too began to sponsor new types of social reports. The years since have seen an apparent decline in the momentum of the social indicators movement. Hence, to evaluate developments, the Journal of Public Policy invited a number of distinguished pioneers in the movement in Europe and America to give their individual assessment of what has happened to social indicators.

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