Social System Accounts

Author : K. Fox
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400953826

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This book results from a research program on which I have spent most of my time since 1974. It addresses two of the major problems facing social system account ing: how to measure and account for nonmarket activities and how to combine social and economic indicators. The solution I propose is accounts based on behavior settings, a concept originated by Roger G. Barker more than thirty years ago. Behavior settings are the natural units of social activity into which people sort themselves to get on with the busi ness of daily life--grocery stores, school classes, reI i gious services, meetings, athletic events, and so on. The descriptive power of behavior settings has been established in surveys of complete communities in the United States and England, of high schools ranging in size from fewer than 100 to more than 2000 students, of rehabilitation centers in hospitals, and of several other types of organizations. Behavior settings are empirical facts of everyday life. A description of a community or an organization in terms of behavior settings corresponds to common experi ence. In many cases, small establishments are behavior settings; the paid roles in behavior settingsare occupa tions; and the buildings and equipment of establishments are the buildings and equipment of behavior settings.

Author : Karl A. Fox
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0792380363

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Non-Invasive Imaging of Atherosclerosis is a primer, reference and review of some of the key features of current activities in the field of atherosclerosis. The Editors' goal is to provide material and stimulating ideas to basic scientists and clinical researchers in order to extend the application of vascular imaging and to further develop methods suitable for investigation of the arterial wall. The first section presents current knowledge about pathology, vascular mechanics and compensatory mechanisms active during atherogenesis. It explores the early lesion, complications of plaques and early detection of plaques. Section II reviews several key methodological issues of B-mode ultrasound imaging and some of the most current data. Quantitative B-mode ultrasound is an established non-invasive tool widely used in large epidemiologic studies and interventional clinical trials of atherosclerosis. The last section addresses the most promising areas of development in vascular imaging. This involves new techniques to evaluate the atherosclerotic bed, to follow atheroma progression/regression and to evaluate vascular mechanics in atherosclerotic arteries. The last chapter places the application of non-invasive imaging in perspective.

Author : F. Thomas Juster,Kenneth C Land
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483274119

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Social Accounting Systems by F. Thomas Juster,Kenneth C Land Pdf

Social Accounting Systems: Essays on the State of the Art contains essays prepared during a workshop aimed at the development and promulgation of objectives for future work on social accounting, and the making of recommendations to achieve them by evaluating existing demographic and time-based accounting models. The essays describe and evaluate the state of the art of extant empirically based approaches to social accounting. The book opens with an overview chapter that describes the organizations of the Workshop on Social Accounting Systems at which the essays were presented and discussed, the nature of the tasks assigned to authors, and the major themes of workshop discussions. This is followed by separate chapters on time-based social accounting systems and demographic accounting; how subjective social indicators can be related to social accounting systems; and general evaluations of the systems described in the previous chapters. This book will be primarily of interest to social scientists and statisticians concerned with the development and integration of national data systems and with social indicator analyses. They also will be germane to the interests of students of contemporary social change and the quality of life.

Author : Francesco Saverio Nitti
Publisher : London : S. Sonnenschein ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Malthusianism
ISBN : UOM:39015065545140

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Population and the Social System by Francesco Saverio Nitti Pdf

Author : Dale F. Lott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991-02-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521370248

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Intraspecific Variation in the Social Systems of Wild Vertebrates by Dale F. Lott Pdf

It has often been assumed by those studying animal behaviour that the social system adopted by a species is a fixed product of natural selection. There is now an interesting body of evidence that this is not always the case. In this book, first published in 1991, Professor Lott presents an overview of the understanding of this phenomenon.

Author : Katayoun Baghai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317053477

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Social Systems Theory and Judicial Review by Katayoun Baghai Pdf

This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potentials of social systems theory for the sociology of law. Against a backdrop of classical and contemporary sociological debates about law and society, it observes judicial review as an instrument for the self-steering of a functionally differentiated legal system. This allows close investigation of the US Supreme Court’s jurisprudence of rights, both in legal terms and in relation to structural transformations of modern society. The result is a thought-provoking account of conceptual and doctrinal developments concerning racial discrimination, race-based affirmative action, freedom of religion, and prohibition of its establishment, detailing the Court’s response to boundary tensions between functionally differentiated social systems. Preliminary examination of the European Court of Human Rights’ privacy jurisprudence suggests the pertinence of the analytic framework to other rights and jurisdictions. This contribution is particularly timely in the context of increasing appeals to fundamental rights around the world and the growing role of national and international high courts in determining their concrete meanings.

Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134927753

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Social System by Talcott Parsons Pdf

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Svetlana G. Maximova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1221 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031238567

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Complex Social Systems in Dynamic Environments by Svetlana G. Maximova Pdf

This edited book considers social systems as self-organizing structures that reproduce new structural elements endowed with certain functional connections. The authors analyze innovative processes in social systems, leading to the sustainable convergence of knowledge and the emergence of technologies that improve the level of material well-being in society. The book summarizes research results in the field of digitalization and reveals deep connections with social problems. In addition, the book presents a whole array of innovative research on social systems management and the application of knowledge and intelligence to the solution of social problems. The contributing scholars and practitioners reflect on various types of social systems and assess the influence of disruptive factors from natural and coupled human-natural environments, discussing possible mechanisms for their neutralization. Sustainable development of social systems is among the most important tasks facing the contemporary world. The contributed book highlights challenges to the sustainability of social systems, draws sociotechnical images of the future world order generated by the rapid development of intellectual technologies, and critically analyzes promising concepts for more sustainable social future. Among the discussed topics in the book are social governance, digital economy, technological landscapes, social systems modeling and simulation, cyber-social systems, knowledge-based innovation systems, complex processes in social systems, institutional arrangements, and other advancing research areas. The high-quality and original studies presented in the book appeal to those interested in broadening their perspectives on complexity science, complex social systems research, complex systems management, advanced technological development in social systems, etc. Since the book is rich with well-thought theories, advanced research approaches, and interdisciplinary research results, it becomes a great source of new ideas and insights on complex social systems.

Author : World Health Organization,European Union,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789240049239

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A system of health accounts 2011 by World Health Organization,European Union,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pdf

A System of Health Accounts 2011 provides a systematic description of the financial flows related to the consumption of health care goods and services. As demands for information increase and more countries implement and institutionalise health accounts according to the system, the data produced are expected to be more comparable, more detailed and more policy relevant. This publication summarises the System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA 2011) Manual, which was jointly produced by OECD, the European Commission and WHO. The SHA 2011 Manual itself draws inspiration from and builds on the original manual, published in 2000, and the Gui de to Producing National Health Accounts (2003) to create a single global framework for producing health expenditure accounts that can help track resource flows from sources to uses. The manual is the result of a four-year collaborative effort between OECD, Eurostat and WHO, and sets out in more detail the boundaries, the definitions and the concepts responding to health care systems around the globe - from the simplest to the more complicated.

Author : Bernard Barber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000675221

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Constructing the Social System by Bernard Barber Pdf

Barber constructs a provisional, generalized, substantive theory of the social system, which he uses as the starting point and focus of his specialized researches. In this collection of his major writings in social system theory, Barber shows how he has used and developed such a framework over the last fifty years and demonstrates the application o

Author : Dipl. Pol. Harald Götz
Publisher : Edition Aumann
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783956260551

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"Social Double-Account-System with Three-Column-Funding with free prices and money administration by the citizens themselves" Adapted to US Economy, strong market-based and joining social needs (All your claims are fulfilled) by Dipl. Pol. Harald Götz Pdf

This ebook is an adaption of a totally new healthcare system to US economy. Worked out by the German author to finish the long-lasting quarrel within the bipartisan political system in USA and to solve the problems bipartisan. This means covered pre-existing conditions. No medical surprise bills. Free choices of doctors or treatments. Open to all (Americans) and affordable for everyone. Totally reflow of indirect taxes to private health accounts. And the greatest promise: decreasing state debts! These are only some claims of the German author. This healthcare is not a normal healthcare system or insurance: The whole system is a social market economy embedded in the national economy.The author took notice during the heated up presidential race in 2016. And the announcements of now-President Trump that he wants to repeal and replace (old-fashioned) Obamacare and that he is also prepared to implement a new idea too. This and the fact that A prophet has no honor in his own country was prompting the German author to work on this adaption. This New Deal Healthcare entitled as Social Double-Account-System with Three-Column-Funding with free prices and money administration by the citizens themselves received President Trump on January 27, 2017 by registered letter. Some explanations were following during the last years through emails.

Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134927746

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The Social System by Talcott Parsons Pdf

This book brings together, in systematic and generalized form, the main outlines of a conceptual scheme for the analysis of the structure and processes of social systems. It carries out Pareto's intention by using the "structural-functional" level of analysis.

Author : Louis Filler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351490689

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Social Accounting Systems by Louis Filler Pdf

Social accounting grew up as a result of the desire to bring together in a meaningful and comprehensive manner all the available observed facts on the economic and financial activity of a nation. Three social accounting systems of flow have been developed during the last three decades. Each of these systems has been constructed separately and independently. The framework of each system is constructed to tackle specific aspects of the national economy. It is also designed in a manner, which helps in framing policies for future activity. The aim of this book is mainly to describe the anatomy of these three social accounting systems and compare their structures. Some attention is also given to a comparison of the systems in actual use by some industrially developed countries, including the centralized economies. The problem of integrating the three systems is also cursorily treated. The student of economics, and the economist in the service of industry, private or public, will obtain from this book a picture of the concepts and: definitions used in social accounting; the book also describes how each system is constructed, and which economic study or analysis it can best serve. Another valuable feature is the comparison the author makes of the national accounts system with the Russian "Natsional'ny Dokhod." In this far-reaching and complex work, the author has brought together the fruits of his very extensive studies into the social accounting methods of many nations, and he goes beyond the analysis of existing systems to suggest ways of tackling the problems of integrating the three main systems into one. Dr. Yanovsky is at present senior economist in the State Comptroller's Office in Israel. He studied economics in the Universities of Chicago and Manchester (where he obtained his doctorate at the Department of Economics and Social Studies in 1963). It was from a thesis he wrote while in Manchester that he drew the inspiration, and much of the material, for

Author : K. Fox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9400953836

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Author : Niklas Luhmann
Publisher : Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198262388

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Law as a Social System by Niklas Luhmann Pdf

However, unlike conventional legal theory, this volume seeks to provide an answer in terms of a general social theory: a methodology that answers this question in a manner applicable not only to law, but also to all the other complex and highly differentiated systems within modern society, such as politics, the economy, religion, the media, and education. This truly sociological approach offers profound insights into the relationships between law and all of these other social systems.