WHAT ARE SOCIAL
INDICATORS?
-consist of selected
indicators at major stages
from birth to death and
include families,
education, employment,
marriage, interpersonal
relationships, retirement,
and sickness, etc.
PURPOSE OF SOCIAL
INDICATORS:
-used to assess how
well a country is
developing in key areas
such as health,
education and diet. It is
one way of finding out
what is happening within
a country.
“Functions of Social Indicators”
1.) Providing a basis for
information for decision-making,
monitoring and evaluating
policies, and/or searching for a
common good and deciding how
to reach it
2.) Phrased in such a way that they
can be interpreted by the general
public
3.)Show "progress" when social
circumstances have really
changed.
“2 KINDS OF INDICATOR”
1.) Objective Social Indicator:
- represent social facts
independently of personal evaluations.
Ex: unemployment rate, poverty rate,
working hours per week, perinatal
mortality rate.
2.) Subjective Social Indicator:
-based on individuals‘ perception
and evaluation of social conditions.
Ex: : life satisfaction, job satisfaction,
etc.; relevance of different life domains,
perception of distributional justice,
class identification
SEVERAL SOCIAL
INDICATORS:
1.)Life Expectancy:
-Is the average lifespan of
someone born in that country.
2.) Birth Rate:
-Measures the number of
babies born per thousand
people per year.
3.) Adult Literacy:
-Is the percentage of
the adult population able to
read and write.
4.) Infant Mortality:
-Measures the number
of children who die before
they reach the age of one
for every thousand live
births per year.
What is WELL-BEING:
-a good or satisfactory
condition of existence; a state
characterized by health,
happiness, and prosperity:
welfare.
-is a general term for the
condition of an individual or
group, for example their
social, economic,
psychological, spiritual or
medical state.
“Two Domains OF Human Well-
being”
Material living conditions:
i) Income and Wealth;
ii) Jobs and Earnings; and
iii) Housing.
Under quality of life:
i) Health Status;
ii) Work and Life Balance;
iii) Education and Skills;
iv) Civic Engagement and Governance;
v) Social Connections;
vi) Environmental Quality;
vii) Personal Security; and
viii) Subjective Well-Being.
Types of Well-being
1.) Cognitive Well-being
2.) Affective Well-being
3.) Psychology in Well-being
4.) Education and Well-being
5.) Subjective Well-being
6.) Ethnic Identity and Well-
being
7.) Individual Roles and Well-
being
8.) Sports and Well-being
1. People’s satisfaction with their lives.
2. Their sense of personal development, sometimes called
positive functioning or personal expressiveness.
Key factors for promoting well-being
at work are:
1.) Personal control of workload
2.) Work matched to skill level
3.) Variety of content
4.) Role Clarity
5.) Financial Rewards
6.) Physical Security
7.) Support from supervisors
8.) relationship with colleagues
9.) Status of Role
10.)Sense of identity with the
organization
Successful social indicators:
1.) Reflective of a social issue or
idea
2.) Available as a time series
3.) Meaningful and sensitive to
change
4.) Summary in Nature
5.) Able to disaggregated
6.) intelligible and easily
interpreted
What is social capital?
“those tangible assets [that]
count for most in the daily lives of
people: namely goodwill, fellowship,
sympathy, and social intercourse
among the individuals and families who
make up a social unit”.
--Author Lyda
Hanifan
Social capital is defined by the
OECD as “networks together with
shared norms, values and
understandings that facilitate co-
Three theories investigate the
features of networks that have
the potential to create social
capital :
1.) Weak Tie Theory
2.) Structural Hole Theory
3.) Social Resource Theory
***According to Light (1998), the key
connection between social capital and
ethnic entrepreneurship is the efficient
use of ethnic resources to support the
creation and survival of businesses in
the community.
**Ethnic resources are derived from
the ethnic group’s particular
characteristics, and include things
such as values, knowledge, skills,
information, solidarity, and work ethic.
Bonacich and Modell’s (1980):
**classic presentation of the
bases of ethnic Solidarity
proposed that a key aspect of
the relationship between
religion and social capital is
the idea that “religion is not
only a set of beliefs and
cultural practices: it is also a
set of social relations”
Three main categories Of
Social Capital:
􀁨 Bonds: Links to people based on a
sense of common identity
􀁨 Bridges: Links that stretch beyond
a shared sense of identity
􀁨 Linkages: Links to people or
groups further up or lower down the
social ladder.
1.) Religious beliefs require a
belief in God or gods
2.) Religious beliefs are
beliefs that induce worship
or worship-related activities
Religious Beliefs:
***Religion (a system of religious
beliefs, practices, and rituals)
A belief is a religious belief
provided that it is:
(1) a belief in something as divine
or
(2) a belief about how to stand in
proper relation to the divine,
where
(3) something is believed to be
divine provided it is held to be
unconditionally nondependent.
Religious belief: is the belief in the
reality of
the mythological, supernatural,
or spiritual aspects of a religion. It is
being derived from ideas that are
exclusive to religion, often relate to
the existence, characteristics and
worship of a deity or deities, divine
intervention in the universe and
human life, or
the deontological explanations for the
values and practices centered on the
teachings of a spiritual leader or
group.
FORMS OF RELIGIOUS
BELIEFS:
1.) Universalism
-religion cannot be separated
from other aspects of life, or believe
that certain cultures did not or do not
separate their religious activities from
other activities in the same way that
some people in
modern Western cultures do.
2.) Orthodoxy:
-a religious belief that closely follows
the edicts, apologies, and hermeneutics of
a prevailing religious authority.
3.) Fundamentalism:
-associated with a strict adherence to
an interpretation of scriptures that are
generally associated with theologically
conservative positions or traditional
understandings of the text and are
distrustful of innovative readings, new
revelation, or alternate interpretations.
4.) Modernism:
-The Renaissance and later
the Enlightenment in were associated
with varying degrees of religious
tolerance and intolerance towards new
religious ideas.
5.) Systemization:
-practice and progress along the
spiritual path happens
6.) Superstition:
-term signifying derogation that
is used by the religious and non-
religious alike, superstition is the
deprecated belief in supernatural
Top 10 Organized Religions
1.) Christianity
2.) Islam
3.)Hinduism
4.) Buddhism
5.) Sikhism
6.) Judaism
7.) Baha’I Faith
8.) Confucianism
9.) Jainism
10.)Shinto
Ethnic
entrepreneurship:
is ‘a set of connections and
regular patterns of interaction
among people sharing common
national background or migration
experiences’
Entrepreneurship -“someone who
establishes a new entity to offer a
new or existing product or service
into
a new or existing market, whether for
a profit or not-for-profit venture”
Entrepreneur: as “one who
distinguishes as a person who
undertakes to organize, manage and
assume the risk of running a
business”.
Seven Problems in Founding and
operating their business:
1.) Acquiring the information needed
for the establishment and survival of
their firms.
2.) Obtaining the capital needed to
establish or to expand their business
3.) acquiring the training and skills
needed to run a small business
4.) recruiting and managing efficient,
honest and cheap workers
5.) Managing relationships with
customers and suppliers.
6.) Surviving strenuous business
competition
7.) Protecting themselves from
political attacks.
Tinbergen (Taxgloss, 2005) defines
“the best entrepreneur in any
developing country is not
necessarily the man who uses
much capital, but rather the man
who knows how to organize the
employment and training of his
employees”.
The End!!!
  
Thank you for
listening.

Social Indicators and Well-being

  • 2.
    WHAT ARE SOCIAL INDICATORS? -consistof selected indicators at major stages from birth to death and include families, education, employment, marriage, interpersonal relationships, retirement, and sickness, etc.
  • 3.
    PURPOSE OF SOCIAL INDICATORS: -usedto assess how well a country is developing in key areas such as health, education and diet. It is one way of finding out what is happening within a country.
  • 4.
    “Functions of SocialIndicators” 1.) Providing a basis for information for decision-making, monitoring and evaluating policies, and/or searching for a common good and deciding how to reach it 2.) Phrased in such a way that they can be interpreted by the general public 3.)Show "progress" when social circumstances have really changed.
  • 5.
    “2 KINDS OFINDICATOR” 1.) Objective Social Indicator: - represent social facts independently of personal evaluations. Ex: unemployment rate, poverty rate, working hours per week, perinatal mortality rate. 2.) Subjective Social Indicator: -based on individuals‘ perception and evaluation of social conditions. Ex: : life satisfaction, job satisfaction, etc.; relevance of different life domains, perception of distributional justice, class identification
  • 6.
    SEVERAL SOCIAL INDICATORS: 1.)Life Expectancy: -Isthe average lifespan of someone born in that country. 2.) Birth Rate: -Measures the number of babies born per thousand people per year.
  • 7.
    3.) Adult Literacy: -Isthe percentage of the adult population able to read and write. 4.) Infant Mortality: -Measures the number of children who die before they reach the age of one for every thousand live births per year.
  • 8.
    What is WELL-BEING: -agood or satisfactory condition of existence; a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity: welfare. -is a general term for the condition of an individual or group, for example their social, economic, psychological, spiritual or medical state.
  • 9.
    “Two Domains OFHuman Well- being” Material living conditions: i) Income and Wealth; ii) Jobs and Earnings; and iii) Housing. Under quality of life: i) Health Status; ii) Work and Life Balance; iii) Education and Skills; iv) Civic Engagement and Governance; v) Social Connections; vi) Environmental Quality; vii) Personal Security; and viii) Subjective Well-Being.
  • 10.
    Types of Well-being 1.)Cognitive Well-being 2.) Affective Well-being 3.) Psychology in Well-being 4.) Education and Well-being 5.) Subjective Well-being 6.) Ethnic Identity and Well- being 7.) Individual Roles and Well- being 8.) Sports and Well-being
  • 11.
    1. People’s satisfactionwith their lives. 2. Their sense of personal development, sometimes called positive functioning or personal expressiveness. Key factors for promoting well-being at work are: 1.) Personal control of workload 2.) Work matched to skill level 3.) Variety of content 4.) Role Clarity 5.) Financial Rewards 6.) Physical Security 7.) Support from supervisors 8.) relationship with colleagues 9.) Status of Role 10.)Sense of identity with the organization
  • 12.
    Successful social indicators: 1.)Reflective of a social issue or idea 2.) Available as a time series 3.) Meaningful and sensitive to change 4.) Summary in Nature 5.) Able to disaggregated 6.) intelligible and easily interpreted
  • 14.
    What is socialcapital? “those tangible assets [that] count for most in the daily lives of people: namely goodwill, fellowship, sympathy, and social intercourse among the individuals and families who make up a social unit”. --Author Lyda Hanifan Social capital is defined by the OECD as “networks together with shared norms, values and understandings that facilitate co-
  • 15.
    Three theories investigatethe features of networks that have the potential to create social capital : 1.) Weak Tie Theory 2.) Structural Hole Theory 3.) Social Resource Theory
  • 16.
    ***According to Light(1998), the key connection between social capital and ethnic entrepreneurship is the efficient use of ethnic resources to support the creation and survival of businesses in the community. **Ethnic resources are derived from the ethnic group’s particular characteristics, and include things such as values, knowledge, skills, information, solidarity, and work ethic.
  • 17.
    Bonacich and Modell’s(1980): **classic presentation of the bases of ethnic Solidarity proposed that a key aspect of the relationship between religion and social capital is the idea that “religion is not only a set of beliefs and cultural practices: it is also a set of social relations”
  • 18.
    Three main categoriesOf Social Capital: 􀁨 Bonds: Links to people based on a sense of common identity 􀁨 Bridges: Links that stretch beyond a shared sense of identity 􀁨 Linkages: Links to people or groups further up or lower down the social ladder.
  • 19.
    1.) Religious beliefsrequire a belief in God or gods 2.) Religious beliefs are beliefs that induce worship or worship-related activities Religious Beliefs: ***Religion (a system of religious beliefs, practices, and rituals)
  • 20.
    A belief isa religious belief provided that it is: (1) a belief in something as divine or (2) a belief about how to stand in proper relation to the divine, where (3) something is believed to be divine provided it is held to be unconditionally nondependent.
  • 21.
    Religious belief: isthe belief in the reality of the mythological, supernatural, or spiritual aspects of a religion. It is being derived from ideas that are exclusive to religion, often relate to the existence, characteristics and worship of a deity or deities, divine intervention in the universe and human life, or the deontological explanations for the values and practices centered on the teachings of a spiritual leader or group.
  • 22.
    FORMS OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS: 1.)Universalism -religion cannot be separated from other aspects of life, or believe that certain cultures did not or do not separate their religious activities from other activities in the same way that some people in modern Western cultures do.
  • 23.
    2.) Orthodoxy: -a religiousbelief that closely follows the edicts, apologies, and hermeneutics of a prevailing religious authority. 3.) Fundamentalism: -associated with a strict adherence to an interpretation of scriptures that are generally associated with theologically conservative positions or traditional understandings of the text and are distrustful of innovative readings, new revelation, or alternate interpretations.
  • 24.
    4.) Modernism: -The Renaissanceand later the Enlightenment in were associated with varying degrees of religious tolerance and intolerance towards new religious ideas. 5.) Systemization: -practice and progress along the spiritual path happens 6.) Superstition: -term signifying derogation that is used by the religious and non- religious alike, superstition is the deprecated belief in supernatural
  • 25.
    Top 10 OrganizedReligions 1.) Christianity 2.) Islam 3.)Hinduism 4.) Buddhism 5.) Sikhism 6.) Judaism 7.) Baha’I Faith 8.) Confucianism 9.) Jainism 10.)Shinto
  • 26.
    Ethnic entrepreneurship: is ‘a setof connections and regular patterns of interaction among people sharing common national background or migration experiences’
  • 27.
    Entrepreneurship -“someone who establishesa new entity to offer a new or existing product or service into a new or existing market, whether for a profit or not-for-profit venture” Entrepreneur: as “one who distinguishes as a person who undertakes to organize, manage and assume the risk of running a business”.
  • 28.
    Seven Problems inFounding and operating their business: 1.) Acquiring the information needed for the establishment and survival of their firms. 2.) Obtaining the capital needed to establish or to expand their business 3.) acquiring the training and skills needed to run a small business 4.) recruiting and managing efficient, honest and cheap workers
  • 29.
    5.) Managing relationshipswith customers and suppliers. 6.) Surviving strenuous business competition 7.) Protecting themselves from political attacks.
  • 30.
    Tinbergen (Taxgloss, 2005)defines “the best entrepreneur in any developing country is not necessarily the man who uses much capital, but rather the man who knows how to organize the employment and training of his employees”.
  • 31.
    The End!!!   Thank you for listening.

Editor's Notes

  • #16 While the first two focus on the nature (weak/strong) and pattern (redundant/non-redundant) of the ties that exist within- and between-groups – or, in other words, on the structure of the network – social resource theory examines the characteristics of network members (and the types of resources that they control), emphasizing thus network content. Whereas studying different aspects of the phenomenon, the three theories have nevertheless a common view of the positive aspects associated with the existence of social capital within a group, as well as with its possession by some of the group members. Among the benefits of social capital mentioned by authors are improved coordination, facilitation of actions, preferential access to opportunities, information and resources, greater visibility and legitimacy, and efficiency (e.g., Nahapiet & Ghoshal, 1998; Portes & Landolt, 2000).