Received: from frosty.irss.unc.edu (frosty.irss.unc.edu [152.2.32.82]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id LAA16559 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 11:37:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from cassell@localhost) by frosty.irss.unc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id NAA11964; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:36:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:36:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Cassell To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: help with ratings used by sociologists In-Reply-To: <199610141723.MAA29554@medicine> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Gavin Hougham wrote: > 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. > Here's the citation for anyone who might be interested: Nick Ravo, "Index of Social Well-Being Is at the Lowest in 25 Years," New York Times, 10/14/96 p. A14 in the National Edition. Best, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jim Cassell Institute for Research in Social Science e-mail: cassell@irss.unc.edu University of North Carolina Ph: 919/962-0782 Fx: 919/962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~