Social indicators
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Social indicators
（Technology, space, and society）（The M.I.T. Press paperback series）
M.I.T. Press, 1967
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Description based on 3rd printing, 1969
"First M.I.T. Press paperback. edition, June 1967"--T.p. verso
"... prepared by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ..."--P. vii
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The focus of this volume is nothing less than the entire set of social indicators-statistics, statistical series, and all other forms of evidence-that enable us to assess where we stand and where we are going with respect to our values and goals and to evaluate specific programs and determine their impact. The kind of social indicators called for in this volume require an abandonment of the Ptolemaic perspective that sees the world revolving around us and require instead a kind of Copernican revolution through which we may better "regard our decisions as involving the total social system, and not only that part of it which revolves around our own persons." Historically, this book can be compared with the earlier efforts of economists to create a stable and useful set of economic indicators. But the problem with economic indicators is that they deal not with the quality of life but rather with the quantity of goods and dollars. True social indicators can function as a guide for economic indicators. Clearly, the implications of the development of social indicators are revolutionary.This pioneering work is intended specifically to state the full dimensions of the problem, to evaluate the present state of the art, and to make specific proposals for where we might go from here.
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