Answer to Question #317458 in Sociology for Geoffroy yawogan

Question

1. Think about and design your own example of changing the indicators of quality of life in time and space?

Name of indicator, Change in time and

Different reliability depending on the location:

2. Think about and suggest what could be considered as high standard of quality of life?

3. Think about and propose a nominal and operational definition for quality of life – don´t use definiton of wealth.

Nominal definition and Operational definition

Answer 1

Standard indicators of the quality of life include wealth, employment, the environment, physical and mental health, education, recreation and leisure time, social belonging, religious beliefs, safety, security, and freedom.

In most cases, a high living standard is determined by factoring a region's gross domestic product (GDP), life expectancy, and income into the amount of wealth, luxury goods, necessities, and comforts available to a certain socioeconomic group. A person's environment, physical and mental health, education, recreation, social well-being, freedom, human rights, and happiness also are significant factors. Good health and personal safety. Material wellbeing, material comforts, including appropriate, affordable housing.

Nominal definition: Quality of life is a measure of an individual's ability to function physically, emotionally, and socially within his/her environment at a level consistent with his/her own expectations.

Operational definition: Quality of life is a measure of an individual's ability to function. physically, emotionally and socially within his/her environment at a level consistent with. his/her own expectations.