Overview
- Provides a comprehensive and multidimensional picture of the quality of European societies
- Is the first to present and review the currently available composite measures of individual quality of life and the quality of society
- Offers a multifaceted, rigorous and precise vision
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 75)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Quality of Life in European Societies
- European Well-Being Index (EWI)
- Subjective Well-Being in Europe
- Social and Political Participation
- Life Satisfaction and Happiness in Europe
- Cultural Practice in Europe
- Global Innovation and Creativity Index
- Quality of Government in European Societies
- Worldwide Governance Indicators
- Composite Indicator of Quality of Work
- Environment Sustainability in Europe
- Social and Gender Equality in Europe
- Children’s Subjective Well-Being Index for European Countries
- Well-Being in Older Populations in Europe
- Health Measures in Europe
- Global Peace Index (GPI)
About this book
This volume presents a compilation of composite indicators created in order to measure important aspects of the quality of European societies. It examines three main questions: do Europeans live in good societies and enjoy good lives; are European societies becoming better as time passes, or is their quality slowly deteriorating; is the quality of life of Europe’s citizens improving over time or is it gradually and irrecoverably getting worse. The volume uses a precise and rigorous system of information to answer these questions and to assess the current situation and monitor the quality of European societies. It describes and discusses fourteen key domains, and per chapter, presents five rankings of EU countries based on composite indicators, which are used as one of the best instruments social science has to synthesize a large amount of information, and they are especially well suited to measure multidimensional social phenomena. The new System of Indices on the Quality of European Societies (SIQES) presented in this volume offers a very broad and rich empirical overview of more than 70 social composite indicators and their nearly 300 dimensions. One of the key findings coming out from the SIQES is that, according to the societal quality of European countries, there exist five different “Europes” inside Europe.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eduardo Bericat is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Seville, and Director of the research group Studies on the Quality of European Societies. His current academic interests are mainly two. On the one hand, the analysis of the social quality and quality of life of European societies through the design, compilation, analysis, and interpretation of composite indicators. On the other hand, the sociology of emotions, particularly the social stratification of emotional well-being, that is, the study of the social distribution of happiness and unhappiness. Others interests are visual sociology, social values, and culture.
María Luisa Jiménez-Rodrigo is associate professor of Sociology at the University of Seville (Spain) and member of the research group Studies on the Quality of European Societies (University of Seville). Her main lines of research include the sociology of gender and social inequalities, specifically in relation to health, education, and work;and the analysis of socio-labour and educational policies and their effects on the processes of discrimination, attention to diversity and social inclusion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Quality of European Societies
Book Subtitle: A Compilation of Composite Indicators
Editors: Eduardo Bericat, María Luisa Jiménez-Rodrigo
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05023-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05022-1Published: 22 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05023-8Published: 10 May 2019
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 334
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Personality and Social Psychology