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"This edited volume explores conceptual and practical challenges in measuring well-being. Given the bewildering array of measures available, and ambiguity regarding when and how to measure particular aspects of well-being, knowledge in the field can be difficult to reconcile. Representing numerous disciplines including psychology, economics, sociology, statistics, public health, theology, and philosophy, contributors consider the philosophical and theological traditions on happiness, well-being and the good life, as well as recent empirical research on well-being and its measurement. Leveraging insights across diverse disciplines, they explore how research can help make sense of the proliferation of different measures and concepts, while also proposing new ideas to advance the field. Some chapters engage with philosophical and theological traditions on happiness, well-being and the good life, some evaluate recent empirical research on well-being and consider how measurement requirements may vary by context and purpose, and others more explicitly integrate methods and synthesize knowledge across disciplines. The final section offers a lively dialogue about a set of recommendations for measuring well-being derived from a consensus of the contributors. Collectively, the chapters provide insight into how scholars might engage beyond disciplinary boundaries and contribute to advances in conceptualizing and measuring well-being. Bringing together work from across often siloed disciplines will provide important insight regarding how people can transcend unhealthy patterns of both individual behavior and social organization in order to pursue the good life and build better societies"--

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The influence of social science on government policy: with particular reference to Britain

"January, 1921." ; Includes bibliographical references and index ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Bound with: The international trade situation / G.B. Roorbach (ed.) -- Taxation and public expenditures / Clyde L. King (ed.) -- The place of the United States in a world organization for the maintenance of peace / American Academy of Political and Social Science -- The revival of American business / C.H. Crennan (ed.)

Tema del mes ; ¿Cómo abordar la utilización del trabajo de los científicos sociales y los humanistas por los grupos organizados de la sociedad?; ¿es posible construir un vínculo productivo entre los académicos y los activistas?; ¿qué riesgos surgen en el uso político del trabajo de los investigadores?; y, ¿hasta dónde llega la responsabilidad intelectual de los académicos? Este documento busca respuestas a estas interrogantes considerando la reflexión sobre la condición humana (Humanidades) y la comprensión y explicación sobre la vida social (Ciencias Sociales) requieren nutrirse del conocimiento sobre los procesos de construcción social. La sociedad se constituye con los significados y valores de quienes viven en ella, y sólo cambia mediante la transformación de esos significados y valores. ; How can we understand the use organized society makes of social and humanistic knowledge? Is it possible to build profitable links between scholars and social activists? What are the risks of the political use of scholarly work? And, how far reaches the intellectual responsibility of scholars? This paper looks for answers to these questions with the belief that the study on human nature (Humanities) and the explanation and understanding of social life (Social Sciences) need nurturing from the social building processes. Society is formed with the meanings and values of the people living in it, and it only changes with the transformation of those meanings and values.

Tema del mes ; ¿Cómo abordar la utilización del trabajo de los científicos sociales y los humanistas por los grupos organizados de la sociedad?; ¿es posible construir un vínculo productivo entre los académicos y los activistas?; ¿qué riesgos surgen en el uso político del trabajo de los investigadores?; y, ¿hasta dónde llega la responsabilidad intelectual de los académicos? Este documento busca respuestas a estas interrogantes considerando la reflexión sobre la condición humana (Humanidades) y la comprensión y explicación sobre la vida social (Ciencias Sociales) requieren nutrirse del conocimiento sobre los procesos de construcción social. La sociedad se constituye con los significados y valores de quienes viven en ella, y sólo cambia mediante la transformación de esos significados y valores. ; How can we understand the use organized society makes of social and humanistic knowledge? Is it possible to build profitable links between scholars and social activists? What are the risks of the political use of scholarly work? And, how far reaches the intellectual responsibility of scholars? This paper looks for answers to these questions with the belief that the study on human nature (Humanities) and the explanation and understanding of social life (Social Sciences) need nurturing from the social building processes. Society is formed with the meanings and values of the people living in it, and it only changes with the transformation of those meanings and values.

This is an open access book. Understanding the problems of war and conflicts that occur both within and outside the sovereignty of the Republic of Indonesia, several discussions on the human side seem essential to do. Several interesting topics can be raised, namely how media coverage is inseparable from human life in the 5.0 era. Furthermore, about the social changes that occurred as a result of the conflict and war. Moreover, the discourse on how the psychological impact experienced by humans due to conflict and war. Departing from this, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities UIN Sunan Kalijaga will hold the Annual International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities 2022.

Can we explain individual outcomes by referring to patterns observed in populations? Social scientists generally assume that we can, at least to a certain degree, and they study populations partly with that goal in mind. However, while patterns can be observed on the population level, which suggest that, on average, certain segments of the population are more likely to experience some outcome, it is impossible, on the individual level, to predict who will actually experience the outcome, even if the individual's relevant characteristics are known. Thus, an interesting tension emerges: on the one hand, individual action and experience produces population-level patterns, while on the other hand, individual experience appears to be 'inherently underdetermined' and partly or largely due to luck or chance. Accordingly, this article considers the relationship between regularities and individual outcomes and to what extent it is desirable to construct models which can explain all the variance in outcomes, and the roles of true chance and what one might call 'as-if' chance in this. An empirical demonstration based on ALLBUS data explores these issues further. It uses the example of the graduate premium to discuss that, while there is a pattern where, on average, graduates earn more than non-graduates, there is a certain degree of individual-level deviation from this pattern (even after taking account of other relevant factors) which is partly due to chance. Patterns identified in data can provide the upper and lower bounds within which chance plays its part. The article closes with a discussion of implications for research and policy, and for the understanding of research findings by the general public.

The first issue of theDécade philosophiqueappeared on 29 April 1794. In all, fifty-four volumes of the journal were published between that date and 1807, when, on Napoleon's orders, it was forced to merge with theMercure français. TheDécadewas published three times a month (taking its name from its appearance on the tenth day of each month of the French republican calendar) and the periodical soon became one of the intellectual powerhouses of the French republic after Robespierre. But quite what, in this particular setting, an intellectual powerhouse might have been is still an open question. Alongside Immanuel Kant or Jeremy Bentham, and their vast and varied intellectual legacies, the significance of the dozens of writers, including Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis, Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours and Jean-Baptiste Say, who contributed to theDécade, is now more difficult to specify. There have, of course, been several fine studies of theDécadeand its contributors, notably by Joanna Kitchen and Marc Régaldo, and more broadly by Sergio Moravia, Martin Staum and Cheryl Welch. But it is still somewhat easier to associate the periodical with a number of keywords, such asidéologieandscience sociale, than with anything comparable to those more comprehensively articulated bodies of thought that came to be labelled "idealism" or "utilitarianism". "Ideologism" never seems to have existed, and certainly never caught on. But this very indeterminacy may still be an advantage. It may help to open up, both historically and analytically, rather more of the intellectual space once covered by the broad range of subjects and arguments that first helped to shape—and then came to be buried by—idealism and utilitarianism.