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Societal Transformations and Their Implications for Social Indicators Research: Comments on “Fifty Years After the Social Indicators Movement: Has the Promise Been Fulfilled?” of K. Land and A. Michalos

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The paper discusses Kenneth C. Land and Alex C. Michalos’ review and assessment of the evolution of research on social indicators, quality of life and well-being over the past fifty years. The contribution deals with the impacts of three major societal changes on the future research agenda of social indicators research: firstly, impacts of the changing class structure of post-industrial society, secondly, globalization impacts, including its economic, political, cultural and institutional dimensions, and thirdly, the impacts of an increasingly networked digitalization of production and consumption.

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  1. Sociological Institute, University of Neuchâtel, Faubourg de l’Hôpital 27, 2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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Suter, C. Societal Transformations and Their Implications for Social Indicators Research: Comments on “Fifty Years After the Social Indicators Movement: Has the Promise Been Fulfilled?” of K. Land and A. Michalos. Soc Indic Res 135, 1035–1038 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1576-6

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