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SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and healthwise? How are these domains interrelated? The authors of this multidisciplinary book have taken a further big step towards answering these questions based on the recent SHARE data in order to support policies for an inclusive society.
Health in later life is shaped by behavior and policies over the life course and reflects the differences between the societies in which we are ageing. This multidisciplinary book answers questions from all life course phases and its interconnections from a European perspective based on the most recent SHARE data, such as: How is our health related to personality traits and influenced by our childhood conditions and careers? Which role does our social network play? Which impacts of the different health care and societal regimes can we trace at older ages? Which are the differences and similarities across European countries?
The COVID-19 pandemic posed a major threat to the well-being of older Europeans. Its economic and social effects, however, varied across countries. This multidisciplinary book presents the first results of analyses that combined the renowned longitudinal database of SHARE with new data from two telephone surveys that were uniquely conducted during the pandemic. The analyses address important policy-related issues, such as: Did social distancing destabilize family and social support networks? Did the pandemic increase health, social and economic inequality? Who had to forego essential health care because of the pandemic? Did lockdown affect one's physical and mental health? Did the shift towards remote work affect workload and well-being? Were different housing conditions related to the spread of the virus?
This book uses a multi-method approach to analyze the informal signaling processes that brought about the Europeanization of workplace pensions.
Partnersuche, Partnerwahl, Heirat, Kinderwunsch, Trennungen und Scheidungen sind Ausdruck individuellen Partnerschaftsverhaltens. Diese Prozesse stehen in engem Zusammenhang mit der sozialen und demographischen Gliederung einer Gesellschaft und den Begegnungsmöglichkeiten mit potenziellen Partnern. Im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts „Gelegenheiten des Kennenlernens: Soziale Ungleichheiten auf dem Partnermarkt in Ost und Westdeutschland“ wurde eine neuartige Beschreibung der individuellen Gelegenheiten des Kennenlernens vorgenommen. Die unterschiedlichen Partnermarktopportunitäten und -restriktionen wurden durch eine direkte Erfragung der sozialen Einbindung in Handlungskontexte und soziale Netzwerke beim Individuum erfasst. In diesem Sammelband werden das neuartige Erhebungsinstrument, die empirische Umsetzung und zentrale Ergebnisse der mehrjährigen Forschungsarbeit dokumentiert.
Die Texte des Bandes beleuchten den Zusammenhang zwischen den gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen und der privaten Lebensführung und loten aus, wo jene das Leben des Einzelnen beschränken, ihm aber auch Möglichkeiten eröffnen.
This book is devoted to recent developments of instrumentation and measurement techniques applied to the aerospace field. It includes 23 selected papers from the 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace. Measurements are essential for obtaining a deeper knowledge of a phenomenon or an asset, as well as for making proper decisions and proposing new and efficient solutions, and this is especially true in environments as complex as aerospace. The research contributions included in the book can raise the interest of a wide group of researchers, operators and decision-makers from metrology and aerospace fields by presenting the most innovative solutions in this field from the scientific and technological points of view.
The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations offers a comprehensive overview of research processes in social science — from the ideation and design of research projects, through the construction of theoretical arguments, to conceptualization, measurement, & data collection, and quantitative & qualitative empirical analysis — exposited through 65 major new contributions from leading international methodologists. Each chapter surveys, builds upon, and extends the modern state of the art in its area. Following through its six-part organization, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practicing academics will be guided through the design, methods, and analysis of issues in Political Science and International Relations: Part One: Formulating Good Research Questions & Designing Good Research Projects Part Two: Methods of Theoretical Argumentation Part Three: Conceptualization & Measurement Part Four: Large-Scale Data Collection & Representation Methods Part Five: Quantitative-Empirical Methods Part Six: Qualitative & "Mixed" Methods
Focuses on fundamental mathematical and computational methods underpinning physics. Relevant to statistical physics, chaotic and complex systems, classical and quantum mechanics, classical and quantum integrable systems and classical and quantum field theory.