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cord-005242-9g2w16d6	Shek, Daniel T. L.	The Social Indicators Movement: Progress, Paradigms, Puzzles, Promise and Potential Research Directions	2017-01-11		.txt	text/plain	7946	423	38	This paper is a response to the article entitled "Fifty years after the Social Indicators Movement: Has the promise been fulfilled?" by Ken Land and Alex Michalos (2015) which constitutes a careful review of the historical development of the Social Indicators Movement, utility of social indicators in shaping the concept of quality of life and subjective well-being, and issues deserving social indicators research in future. These include (a) the use of "other types of evidence", particularly qualitative data; (b) evaluation of social programs; (c) feasibility of assessing "social progress"; (d) choice of social indicators; (e) interpretation of findings; (f) methodological debates; and (g) explanations for social change. Regarding puzzles in social indicators research, we consider several issues, including the role of qualitative data, role of evaluation in social programs, feasibility of assessing social progress, choice of social indicators to be used, interpretations of findings, methodological debates and explanations for social change.	./cache/cord-005242-9g2w16d6.txt	./txt/cord-005242-9g2w16d6.txt