Introduction: Context and Connections -- Chapter 1. Quality of Life: Two Variable Theory -- Chapter 2. Satisfaction and Happiness -- Chapter 3. Multiple Discrepancies Theory (MTD) -- Chapter 4. A Feminist View of Women and Development -- Chapter 5. Highlights of Four Volume Global Report on Student Well-Being -- Chapter 6. Comments on Papers for the Special Issue on Global Report on Student Wel…
Totality and Totalism: Theory and Concepts -- Evolving Perspectives: Eschatology and Utopia -- The Totalist Types: Between Renovative and Utopian Strands -- Totalism Transformed: Power, Purity, and Truth from Heterodoxy to Ideocracy.-The Legion of the Archangel Michael and the “Hybrid” Totalist Type.This interdisciplinary endeavour portrays the central features of militant movements which h…
The Role of Consumers in Innovation Economics -- Evolutionary Economics -- The New Agent-Based Paradigm in Economics -- An ABM of Heterogeneous Consumers and Demand -- Consumer Networks -- Bounded Morality of Consumers.Matthias Müller makes a case for the particular role of the demand side in research on innovation. Based on a complex agent-based simulation model, he analyzes the versatile mut…
Part 1: Comparing responses to different survey questions on the same topic -- Problems and conventional solutions -- chap. 1 Diversity in survey items and the comparability problem -- Part 2: Innovation 1: The happiness scale interval study -- chap. 2 The happiness scale interval study -- chap. 3 Use of happiness scale interval studies in this book -- chap. 4 Equivalence of rating scales using…
Part I: Education and Social Web Technologies -- The Effectiveness of Teaching and Learning Module to Enhance Preschool Children’s Emotional Intelligence -- Cognitive Ability Among Preschool Children In Kuala Lumpur -- Trainee teachers’ Teaching Metaphors and Its Pedagogical Association -- Effective Teaching of Arabic Teacher In Secondary School -- Taking Epistemological Beliefs Into Accoun…
Preface -- Part I. Conceptional Framings of Identity in a Multifaceted World; Editor's Introduction -- Chapter 1. Many-Ways-of-Being. Identity as (Inter)Action; Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Julie Feilberg and Aase Lyngvær Hansen -- Chapter 2. Positioning Theory and Life-Story Interviews: Discursive Fields, Gaze and Resistance; David Block -- Chapter 3. Co-Constructing the Adolescent’s Identity: A…
Chapter 1. Towards more complexity in subjective well-being studies; Gaël Brulé and Filomena Maggino -- Part I. Conceptual Issues -- Chapter 2. Can Good Life Be Measured? The dimensions and measurability of a life worth living; Frank Martela -- Chapter 3. The Subjective Object of Well-Being Studies. Well-being as the experience of being well; Mariano Rojas -- Part II -- Measurement issues -…
Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Basic Demographic Concepts -- Chapter 3 Sources of Demographic Information -- Chapter 4 Forecasting Population Size and Composition -- Chapter 5 Forecasting Using Modified Cohort Change Ratios -- Chapter 6 Forecasting Uncertainty -- Chapter 7 Forecasting School Enrollment Size and Composition -- Chapter 8 Forecasting Other Characteristi…
Chapter 1. Launching a New Methodology for the Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 2. Applying the One-dot Theory Again to the Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 3. Finding Fault with the Non-One-Dot-Theory Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 4. Challenging Other Theories and Models in General and Those Related to Contemporary China in Particular -- Chapter 5. Sharing Some Major Findi…