Urban and rural millennials: Heterogeneity of the young adult generation

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Vadim V. Radaev
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Generational Cohort ◽  
Rural Infrastructure ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Monitoring Survey

A sociological approach towards the generational cohort analysis is developed. A special emphasis is made upon the youngest adult generation of millennials coming out of their adolescence in the 2000s. A broad range of social indicators is used for empirical exploration of intra-generational differences between urban and rural millennials. Data were collected from the annual Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS-HSE) in 2003—2016. Numerous significant differences have been revealed with regard to the educational level, family planning, use of modern gadgets and digital technologies, commitment to healthy lifestyles, and some values. Some practices are more widely spread among rural millennials, whereas other practices are more characteristic of urban millennials. Most of revealed differences are explained by the lower level of material well-being of rural millennials and lower quality of rural infrastructure.

scholarly journals The Divide among the Millennial Generation: Historical and Empirical Justifications. (Part one)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-63
Author(s):  
Vadim V. Radaev
Keyword(s):  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Consumer Services ◽  
Monitoring Survey

This article is about developing a sociological approach towards generational cohort analysis. The previously examined generation of millennials is divided into two age cohorts. A specific group of so-called “3S” millennials (“smartphones”, “social media”, “slump in the economy”) is distinguished. This younger generation entered their period of adulthood starting in the year of 2008, which was marked by continuous economic recession and a broad dissemination of new technologies and digital consumer services. Data was gathered from the annual Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS–HSE) for the years 1994–2018. The obtained results show a divide within the millennial generation, measured by a multiplicity of social indicators along with the preservation of many inter-generational differences. In part one of the paper published in this issue of the journal, we reveal that the younger “3S” generation of millennials has been dealing with new digital technologies since their early adolescent years. They are better educated, have more educated parents, and often postpone important decisions like marriage, first pregnancy, having children, employment in the labor market. Many intra- and intergenerational differences remain stable during the observation period when controlling for age and other standard variables.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELFARE AND THE LEVEL OF LIFE SATISFACTION ON THE EXAMPLE OF SELECTED COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Ewa Polak
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Economic Welfare ◽  
Quality Life ◽  
Methods Of Measurement ◽  
Economic Well Being

The article presents problems related to life quality, life satisfaction and sense of happiness, their determinants, methods of measurement and dependence on the level of wealth and other conditions. Life quality is an abstract blurred term which depends on numerous factors. There is not any single, comprehensive definition, measure or cause of such phenomena as life quality, economic well-being or sense of happiness. Their evaluation depends on economic, political, cultural and social conditions and also on individual features, expectations and attitudes. More and more often, next to hard economic coefficients, social indicators are applied, and synthetic measures of the level of life quality or social and economic well-being are developed. The level of social development is strongly affected by the quality of human capital. The article presents an attempt at matching parameters and indicators which characterise various aspects of life quality and applying them for the development of synthetic measures of life quality in its different aspects. It is also aimed at comparing them with the current results obtained by research studies in this field. The aim of the article is to provide an assessment of diversification in the levels of living conditions observed in some selected countries – its size, specificity and cause-effect relations with the use of the listed parameters and measures. The research on life quality should be applied to the assessment of the efficiency of social and economic policy which has been currently implemented.

Social Indicators

Sociology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth C. Land
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Level ◽  
Level Of Living

How are we doing with respect not only to our economic level of living but, more generally, the quality of our lives, our well-being? Improving, staying about the same, or deteriorating? Compared to our past? Compared to other countries/societies? And, if improving, are the improvements shared throughout the society or only among some of us? These are the kinds of questions that have motivated research and development on social indicators, quality of life metrics, and well-being research over the past fifty years. This research has resulted in a substantial number of conceptual and empirical contributions to the measurement of social conditions, in general, and of quality of life/well-being, in particular.

scholarly journals Divide among the Millennial Generation: Historical and Empirical Justifications. (Part two)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-60
Author(s):  
Vadim Radaev
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Intergenerational Differences ◽  
Consumer Services ◽  
Monitoring Survey ◽  
Younger Generation

In this concluding part of the paper, we continue an empirical analysis based on dividing the generation of millennials into two age cohorts. Special attention is drawn to a group of millennials designated as “3S” (“smartphones”, “social media”, “decline of the economy”). This younger generation began entering the period of adulthood since the year 2008, which has been marked by a continuous economic recession and broad dissemination of the technologies and digital consumer services. Data were collected from the annual Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS–HSE) in 1994–2018. The results obtained show a divide in the millennial generation measured by a multiplicity of social indicators along with the preservation of many inter-generational differences. In the second part of the paper, we show that the younger generation of “3S” millennials demonstrates a decline in alcohol consumption and smoking, while being more involved in sports. “3S” millennials watch TV less frequently and are more engaged in reading and cultural activities. They reveal lower religious affiliations and are more optimistic in regards to their material status and life prospects. Many intra- and intergenerational differences are significant and robust over the time of observation when controlling for age and other standard variables. In conclusion, four types of inter-relations between intra- and intergenerational differences are delineated.

Millennials and Generation Z: a generational cohort analysis of Indian consumers

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Packiaraj Thangavel ◽  
Pramod Pathak ◽  
Bibhas Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Generational Cohort ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Decision Styles

PurposeYoung consumers are recognized as an important and lucrative segment for the businesses across the globe. While initial steps have been taken to understand them, majority of the existing works consider both Millennials and Generation Z as a single and homogeneous market segment. The purpose of this study is to explore the consumer decision-making styles which are prevalent among Indian Millennials and Generation Z e-shoppers, and how significantly they differ from one another on each of those decision-making attributes.Design/methodology/approachThis exploratory study used the generational cohort theory (GCT) as a framework. The psychographic statements (Questionnaire items) employed were adopted from several past researches on store orientation and catalog orientation, and they were rephrased to suit to the context of Indian online shopping. The principal components factor analysis with promax rotation has been used to unearth the underlying decision-styles among 503 survey participants. Subsequently, the ANOVA model was run to examine the mean differences between the cohorts.FindingsThe factor analysis has revealed that frugality (Price), convenience (Home) and social desirableness are the most dominant shopping orientations (decision-styles) that prevail among Indian (Millennials and Generation Z) online shoppers though in varying degrees. The probing of ANOVA results suggested that, though both the cohorts favor e-shopping, Generation Z are more enthusiastic about online shopping than their Millennial counterparts do.Practical implicationsThough Generation Z and Millennials share few characteristics between them, they exhibit different consumer behaviors. Marketers need to customize their value offerings and marketing communications that resonate well with each generational cohort.Originality/valueAlmost all the existing research works that have been conducted so far on generational cohorts are from Western and European countries and one could confidently say that those findings cannot be applied for the developing nations such as India which is a complex and diverse country in terms of its language, custom, religion and practices with troublesome pasts. Moreover, this is the first empirical work to be conducted to unearth the generational differences that exist between Generation Z and Millennials to the best of authors' knowledge.

scholarly journals Sense of place as an indicator of community sustainability

1999 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 765-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Stedman
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Sustainability ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Psychological Measures ◽  
Community Residents ◽  
Economic Well Being

"Sense of place," or the meaning and attachments that community residents have towards their community, is a potentially useful and somewhat neglected indicator of sustainability. Issues of human community need to be addressed in forest management. Recent considerations of forests as complex ecological systems to be sustained have tended to neglect human concerns. These include, but are not limited to, economic well-being: other "subjective" indicators of quality of life are also relevant, and comprehensible via conventional scientific inquiry. Sense of place is one such indicator – although quantitative research on sense of place is in its infancy, it is readily understood through conventional social psychological measures, which have the advantage of being monitored over time or compared across settings. Key words: sense of place, social indicators, community well-being

“QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT AT VARIOUS STAGES OF TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER PATIENTS IN INDIAN DEMOGRAPHICS”

2021 ◽  
pp. 66-68
Author(s):  
Shivakumari Devi ◽  
Uday Pratap Shahi ◽  
Purnima Awasthi ◽  
Ganeshkumar Patel
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients

AIM: - The aim of this study is to assess the QOL in breast cancer patients during different stages, mastectomy surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy. To evaluate quality of life of females after mastectomy and factors affecting the same in various domain of life MATERIAL AND METHOD:-60 breast cancer patients (mastectomy=20, chemotherapy=20, radiotherapy=20) from May 2019 to Nov 2020. Translated version of a customized questionnaire based on the Royal College of surgeons, quality of life Instrument- Breast cancer patient version (QOL-BC), self-designed questionnaire. Questionnaire is used assess quality of life these patients. Prospective study after whole breast radiation therapy (50Gy plus a 10Gy boost). Patient data collected before beginning of cancer treatment, and at every stage of treatment surgery, chemo and radiation and 3 months after complete treatment. During the interview, we collected information on demographic characteristics, treatment method for breast cancer patient's mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy social well-being and quality of life chemotherapy & radiotherapy patients. Statistical analysis performed for the demographic characteristics of social well-being quality of life of mastectomy, chemo therapy and radiotherapy status were summarized using frequency and percentage for categorical variables, means and standard deviation (SD) for continuous variables. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare mean of the total QOL scores in three study groups. Data analyses was done using SPSS version 16.0 software. RESULT:- For mastectomy surgery body image, pain, activity daily living, treatment, the mean QOL score coming out to be above the 50 percent of total QOL score, psychological aspect almost 50 percent score and sexual life less than 50 percent score .QOL chemotherapy total score coming out almost 50 percent and radiotherapy less than 50 percent score. CONCLUSION: Adequate social support from family members, friends and neighbors, and higher scores of social well-beings, were associated with signicantly improved quality of life Breast cancer patients.

scholarly journals Development of a Threshing Device for Pearl Millet

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Akinwonmi Ademola Samuel ◽  
Kolawole Adenike Alice ◽  
Seckley, Emmanuel Mawuli ◽  
Adedotun O. Adetunla
Keyword(s):  
Pearl Millet ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Well Being ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Centrifugal Fan ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Lactating Mothers ◽  
Anticlockwise Direction ◽  
Foreign Materials

Millets are high energy and nutritious foods recommended for the health and well- being of infants, lactating mothers and elderly people. Threshing of this crop still poses a lot of problems to local farmers. To make millet farming integral in Ghana, engineers are making concerted efforts to produce simple farm implements. This will complement other measures adopted by other stake holders to ensure that there is food security. This paper therefore presents a community based millet thresher to reduce the burden farmers go through in threshing pearl millet. The millet thresher has a thresher welded to a steel shaft and then supported on a frame. Connected to the thresher are; an input mounted on the thresher and an output fitted to the exit of the thresher. The output comprises a sieve and a tray. A centrifugal fan supported on the frame supplies air that winnows the threshed grain coming out of the tray and the cleaned millet grains fall into a collector. The millet thresher mainly employs the effects of friction (taking advantage of the fact that millets can be effectively threshed by rubbing the panicles on a rough surface) for threshing. Results show that the thresher rotates in the anticlockwise direction at a speed of 950 revolutions per minute with shaft diameter of 30.88 mm calculated from the equivalent torque. The millet thresher would reduce the long laborious hours spent in threshing and improve the quality of the grains since the possibility of the wind introducing foreign materials into the millet is reduced.

scholarly journals Abordări conceptuale și metodologii de măsurare a calității vieții. O analiză descriptivă

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Bianca Buligescu
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Quality Of Life Research ◽  
Life Measurement ◽  
Quality Dimensions

The main objective of this paper is to describe the logic of the conceptual approaches regarding the quality of life, and to identify the main dimensions and measurable indicators of quality of life. The identification of the main conceptualizations of quality of life is an essential step, in the context in which quality of life is often ambiguous or has multiple meanings. Although often used as an umbrella term which encompasses many aspects of human life, we aim to describe the logic of the integrative approaches regarding well-being/ quality of life. The identification of the main dimensions and measurable indicators of quality of life with a brief description of those, will serve to operationalize a list of life quality dimensions. Keywords: quality of life research; quality of life measurement; quality of life theory; social indicators; economic indicators. ●●●●● Principalele obiective ale acestei lucrări sunt de a descrie logica abordărilor conceptuale privind calitatea vieții și de a identifica principalele dimensiuni, respectiv indicatori măsurabili ai calității vieții. Analiza principalelor conceptualizări ale calității vieții reprezintă un pas esențial, în contextul în care utilizarea conceptului de calitatea vieții este adesea ambiguă sau cel puțin cu sensuri multiple. Deși utilizat adesea ca un termen-umbrelă care înglobează mai multe aspecte ale vieții umane, ne propunem să descriem logica abordărilor integrative privind calitatea vieții. Identificarea principalelor dimensiuni și indicatorii măsurabili ai calității vieții, cu o descriere pe scurt a acestora, va servi la operaționalizarea unei liste de dimensiuni a calității vieții. Cuvinte-cheie: cercetarea calității vieții; măsurarea calității vieții; teoria calității vieții; indicatori sociali; indicatori economici.

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