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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 12:14:11 -0400
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        Sociology Graduate Students -- International <socgrad@csf.colorado.edu>
From: ghougham@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu (Gavin Hougham)
Subject: Re: help with ratings used by sociologists
At 01:41 PM 10/10/96 -0400, Pamela Paxton wrote:
>Hi all,
>I'm brainstorming and could use some help!  I'm trying to think of 
>ratings that might be used by sociologists in their research...

I have already responded once to this posting, but I wanted to alert you to
a short article in today's (Monday) New York Times.  The piece announces a
new report put out by an Innovations Institute of some sort at Fordham
University that uses the kind of social indicators we've been talking about
here.  Very interesting composite measures of social inequality, "quality of
social life" and so on are briefly discussed, and a few trends are
abstracted back from the late 1970's.  (Sorry I can not give you a better
cite, but I left the paper at home and did not think of posting the info at
the time...)

Gavin H.

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