Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Introduction; 1. Monitoring Social Change in American Society
  • Eleanor Bernert Sheldon and Wilbert E. Moore; Major Structural Change and its Measurement; A Changing American Society; Recommendations for Future Developments; II. The Demographic Base; 2. Population: Trends and Characteristics
  • Conrad Taeuber; Population Trends Since 1790; Sources and Limitations of Data; Definitions of Included Population; Data on Population Characteristics; Some Future Data Needs; III. Structural Features; 3. Production of Goods and Services: The Measurement of Economic Growth
  • A.W. Sametz
  • Real Per Capita GNPAllowing for the Increase in the Quality of Output and of Input; Allowing for the Fall in Nonmarket ""Sales"" and the Rise of ""Industrialization"" Costs; Developing the ""Welfare Output"" Indicator; Social Welfare and Happiness; 4. Labor Force and Employment Trends
  • Stanley Lebergott; Patterns of Labor Force Supply; Status Changes in the Labor Market; Trends in the Distribution of Employment; Stability and Change in the Labor Market; Data Development; 5. The Measurement of Knowledge and Technology
  • Daniel Bell; Theoretical Perspective; The Dimensions of Knowledge
  • The Measurement of Technological ChangeThe Structure of the Knowledge Society; Coda; 6. The Changing Politics of American Life
  • Joyce M. and William C. Mitchell; Formal Political Structures and Processes; Policy and Policy-Making; Changing Political Activities of Citizens; Changing Governmental Activities; Some Changing Impacts of the Polity on Society; An Agenda for Research; 7. The Theory and Measurement of Family Change
  • William J. Goode; Renewed Interest in the Theory of Change; Types of Problems in Family Change; Types of Units to be Observed; The Uses of Historical Data
  • Family Change Analysis for the Future8. Trends and Anti-Trends in Religious Change
  • N.J. Demerath III; Discerning and Disputing Trends in Formal Religious Participation; Yesterday's Villiage Atheist, Today's Theologian, Tomorrow's Parishioner: Trends in Religious Belief?; Change in Church Organization: Differentiation and Bureaucratization; The Ecumenical Tide and its Backwash; Summary and Qualifications; IV. Distributive Features; 9. Consumption: A Report on Contemporary Issues
  • Milton Moss; Growth in the Total Economy; Measures of the Inequalities of Economic Growth
  • Choice and Consumer BehaviorAnticipating Effects of Consumer Behavior on the Economy; Knowledge and the Consumer: Concluding Remarks; 10. The Definition and Measurement of Leisure
  • Philip H. Ennis; Problems of Definition; Problems of Measurement; Problems of Distribution; Organizational Patterns; The Quality of Leisure; 11. Problems in the Measurement of Heath Status
  • Iwao M. Moriyama; Infant Mortality; Total Mortality; National Illness Statistics; Definition of Health and Disease; Possible Indicators of Health; Problems in Developing an Index of Health; Summary
  • 12. Trends in Output and Distribution of Schooling
  • Beverly Duncan