Brief History
The Working Group “Social Indicators” (WG06) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) was officially established in 1988. Although the status of a working group had been considered transitional from the beginning, and despite severe efforts and several applications, it took 20 years to achieve the current status of a Research Committee “Social Indicators” (RC55), which was awarded by the ISA in 2008. According to the statutes of RC55 “the primary purpose of the research committee is to advance research and scholarly communication in the field of social indicators in a broad sense” (see www.isa-sociology.org/rc55.htmas) as it was for the former working group. The general theme of “social indicators in a broad sense” covers not only issues of measuring and monitoring individual and societal well-being, but also all sorts of quantitative research in the field of living conditions and quality of life.
The approval of the WG06 by the ISA officials in 1988 was the...
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Noll, HH., Michalos, A.C. (2014). International Sociological Association Working Group/Research Committee on Social Indicators. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_1509
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