Wolfgang Glatzer Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitiit Franlifurt am Main, Germany ABSTRACT Challenges for the quality of life in the contemporary world were the focus of the Fifth International Quality of Life-Conference in Frankfurt am Main in the year 2003, hosted and organized by the Interna- tional Society for Quality of Life Studies. The first part of this introductory article is concerned with a general assessment of contemporary quality of life research. At present, the concept of quality of life is a kind of umbrella which keeps together a reasonable number of international social...

Wolfgang Glatzer Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitiit Franlifurt am Main, Germany ABSTRACT Challenges for the quality of life in the contemporary world were the focus of the Fifth International Quality of Life-Conference in Frankfurt am Main in the year 2003, hosted and organized by the Interna tional Society for Quality of Life Studies. The first part of this introductory article is concerned with a general assessment of contemporary quality of life research. At present, the concept of quality of life is a kind of umbrella which keeps together a reasonable number of international social...

Die Frankfurter Beitrage aus Soziologie und Politik bieten Analysen und Theorien zu zentralen Aspekten der Gesellschaft. Je nach Fragestellung treten Probleme der Industrie-, Informations- und Globalgesellschaft bzw. des Geschlechterverhaltnisses in den Vordergrund.

Moderne Gesellschaften mussen wissen, wo sie stehen und wohin sie gehen. Zentrale Schlusselbegriffe dafur sind Sozialstruktur und sozialer Wandel, wahrend sich Sozialberichterstattung und gesellschaftliche Dauerbeobachtung als unverzichtbare methodische Instrumente einer wirksamen sozialwissenschaftlichen Infrastruktur entwickelt haben. Die Beitrage dieses Buches befassen sich mit der Analyse gesellschaftlicher Strukturen, Entwicklungstendenzen und Herausforderungen sowie den dafur erforderlichen methodischen und institutionellen Voraussetzungen.

Auf die Frage "Was ist Soziologie?" wird gelegentlich die Antwort gegeben: "Das, was Soziologen tun." Wohl kein anderes "soziologisches Nachschlagewerk" dokumen tiert so gut wie die Tagungsbande zu den Soziologentagen die Variationsbreite aktu eller Arbeitsgebiete von Soziologen in der Bundesrepublik. Auch die Thematik des 25. Deutschen Soziologentags "Die Modernisierung moderner Gesellschaften" bot breitgefacherte Moglichkeiten rur Veranstaltungs- und Referatthemen. Der Haupt teil dieses Bandes wurde von den "Sektionen" der Deutschen Gesellschaft rur Sozio logie (DGS) beigetragen. Sektionen...

The centuries-old question of the wealth of nations was in the past decades more and more challenged by the question of the well-being of nations . What is the outcome of human activities in terms of improving the quality-of-life of countries and continents. In the context of quality-of-life-research different methods and procedures were developed to monitor the well-being of nations. Transcending traditional methods objective and subjective indicators were taken into account. The development of different approaches shows that no single indicator comes out as a unique one. What are the good...

The centuries-old question of the wealth of nations was in the past decades more and more challenged by the question of the well-being of nations . What is the outcome of human activities in terms of improving the quality-of-life of countries and continents. In the context of quality-of-life-research different methods and procedures were developed to monitor the well-being of nations. Transcending traditional methods objective and subjective indicators were taken into account. The development of different approaches shows that no single indicator comes out as a unique one. What are the good...