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.

Social Indicators and Social Reporting in Germany

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Glatzer ◽  
Heinz-Herbert Noll
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Reporting ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Social Indicators Movement ◽  
The 1960S

Social indicators research developed in the United States at the end of the 1960s and the principal ideas and approaches were received by West German social scientists soon thereafter. It became common usage to speak of a social indicators movement, an expression which is rather unusual in regard to a scientific approach.

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.

Prospects for Social Reporting in the United States: A Receding Horizon

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (x) ◽  
pp. 251-261
Author(s):  
Richard C. Rockwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United States ◽  
Real World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Reporting ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Scientific Advance ◽  
The Real ◽  
Incomplete Model ◽  
The Social

This essay sets forth the thesis that social reporting in the United States has suffered from an excess of modesty among social scientists. This modesty might be traceable to an incomplete model of scientific advance. one that has an aversion to engagement with the real world. The prospects for social reporting in the United States would be brighter if reasonable allowances were to be made for the probable scientific yield of the social reporting enterprise itself. This yield could support and improve not only social reporting but also many unrelated aspects of the social sciences.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-165
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
New York State ◽  
The United States ◽  
Atlantic City ◽  
York State Department ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Executive Council ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
President Elect

Officers Elected: At the annual meeting of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association in Atlantic City in April 1970, the following officers and members of the Executive Council were elected: President John H. Kennell, President Elect Donald L. Fink, Executive Council Members: Ray E. Helfer and Roland B. Scott. Institites for Physicians and Nurses in the Care of Premature and Other Highrisk Infants, sponsored by the New York State Department of Health and the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and conducted at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center five times during the academic year, will begin in September, 1970.

American Labor Unions in the Electoral Arena By Herbert B. Asher, Eric S. Heberlig, Randall B. Ripley, and Karen Snyder. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 207p. $69.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 630-630
Author(s):  
Glenn Perusek
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact ◽  
American Labor

For more than a generation, as the authors rightly point out, the impact of organized labor on electoral politics has been neglected in scholarly literature. Indeed, only a tiny minority of social scientists explicitly focuses on organized labor in the United States. Although the impact of the social movements of the 1960s appeared to heighten awareness of the importance of class, race, and gender, class and its organized expression, the union movement, has received less attention, while studies of race and gender have flourished.

Report on Recent Social Trends in the United States

1933 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-227
Author(s):  
Arthur N. Holcombe
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Society ◽  
Good Prospect ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Students ◽  
Fact Finding

This is the latest and most comprehensive of the series of studies promoted or patronized by Mr. Hoover, which began in 1921 with the report on “Waste in Industry.” In September, 1929, the President called upon a group of leading social scientists to examine recent social trends with a view to preparing such a report “as might supply a basis for the formulation of large national policies looking to the next phase in the nation's development.” This was an ambitious undertaking, more ambitious than any of those which had preceded it. But the President believed firmly in the method of fact-finding by commission, as was demonstrated by the contemporaneous creation of the Wickersham Commission. This belief appeared to be justified by the accomplishments of previous commissions, especially the commission whose report on “Recent Economic Changes” was then approaching completion. Be that as it may, it was logical that the series of studies should culminate with a broader view of the great society which constitutes the American community. For the purpose of making this survey, President Hoover secured the services of six expert investigators whose past performances had gained for them the confidence of American students of the social sciences. Among them there was a thoroughly competent representative of political science. There was also assurance of adequate financial support. Thus the enterprise began with a good prospect of achieving whatever it might be practicable to achieve in the existing state of the social sciences.

Policy Analysis in the United States

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
National Governments

Policy Analysis in the United States brings together contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of public policy analysis including Beryl Radin, David Weimer, Rebecca Maynard, Laurence Lynn, and Guy Peters. This volume is part of the International Library of Policy Analysis series, enabling scholars to compare cross-nationally concepts and practices of public policy analysis in the media, sub-national governments, and many more institutional settings. The book explores the current landscape of public policy in the US, its breadth and complexities, and the role of policy analysis. It highlights the role and importance of policy analysis in the present, especially in the context of “alternative facts”, as well as looking at the evolution of the discipline over time. It examines policy analysis from local to national levels, and includes specific chapters examining how public policies and policy analysis have been shaped by, and shapes, public opinion, the American political landscape, the media, public and private sectors, higher education, and more. It includes an examination of how the academic fields of policy training and policy analysis are changing, and how policy analysis as a discipline, which started in the US, has grown and developed internationally.

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