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This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community
in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and
well-being of different groups: children, young people, older
adults, migrants. The traditional concept of community has changed
together with the way people participate in community spaces.
Community nowadays is more than a geographic concentration; it is
related to social support, inter-subjectivity, participation,
consensus, common beliefs, joint effort aiming at a major
objective, and intense and extensive relationships. This volume
presents unique experiences about culture, social development,
health, water, armed conflicts, the digital media, and sports
within communities, written by authors from Latin countries. This
volume is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policy
makers in quality of life studies.
This volume explores the use and relevance of qualitative methods
for the study of quality of life. It analyzes the role of
qualitative researcher and the role of the context and the culture
in quality of life studies. It presents the use of qualitative
methods in real projects carried out in specific fields: geography,
health, community studies, labor life and yoga. Finally, the book
proposes the use of mixed methods that are considered as the third
methodological approach in social research. The main purpose of
using qualitative methods is to understand what it means for
participants to be involved in certain events, situations and
actions. Such methods help understand the context in which
participants act and the influence of that context on their
actions. The decision to use a particular methodology implies a
philosophic, theoretical and political decision. Qualitative
methodology constitutes an approach that is essential for
understanding people's experiences of well-being and discovering
new issues related to quality of life.
This volume sheds new light on the use of quantitative, qualitative
and synthetic indicators for the measurement of quality of life in
different countries of Latin America. Organized in three parts, the
book presents the methodology for the construction of new
indicators, discusses quality of urban life from a geographical
perspective, and examines quality of life of different populations.
The book focuses on the social, economic, political, geographical
and demographic dimensions. It covers a wide range of topics,
including the ways to measure social, political and spatial
inequalities, the changes in urban quality of life, the
construction of a synthetic indicator for the assessment of
habitability, the measuring of spatial segregation in midsize and
smaller cities by using thematic cartography and synthesis maps,
and the concept of habitability. It includes research conducted on
the quality of life of different population groups: working boys
and girls, high-school students, and older people.
This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community
in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and
well-being of different groups: children, young people, older
adults, migrants. The traditional concept of community has changed
together with the way people participate in community spaces.
Community nowadays is more than a geographic concentration; it is
related to social support, inter-subjectivity, participation,
consensus, common beliefs, joint effort aiming at a major
objective, and intense and extensive relationships. This volume
presents unique experiences about culture, social development,
health, water, armed conflicts, the digital media, and sports
within communities, written by authors from Latin countries. This
volume is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policy
makers in quality of life studies.
This volume sheds new light on the use of quantitative, qualitative
and synthetic indicators for the measurement of quality of life in
different countries of Latin America. Organized in three parts, the
book presents the methodology for the construction of new
indicators, discusses quality of urban life from a geographical
perspective, and examines quality of life of different populations.
The book focuses on the social, economic, political, geographical
and demographic dimensions. It covers a wide range of topics,
including the ways to measure social, political and spatial
inequalities, the changes in urban quality of life, the
construction of a synthetic indicator for the assessment of
habitability, the measuring of spatial segregation in midsize and
smaller cities by using thematic cartography and synthesis maps,
and the concept of habitability. It includes research conducted on
the quality of life of different population groups: working boys
and girls, high-school students, and older people.
This volume explores the use and relevance of qualitative methods
for the study of quality of life. It analyzes the role of
qualitative researcher and the role of the context and the culture
in quality of life studies. It presents the use of qualitative
methods in real projects carried out in specific fields: geography,
health, community studies, labor life and yoga. Finally, the book
proposes the use of mixed methods that are considered as the third
methodological approach in social research. The main purpose of
using qualitative methods is to understand what it means for
participants to be involved in certain events, situations and
actions. Such methods help understand the context in which
participants act and the influence of that context on their
actions. The decision to use a particular methodology implies a
philosophic, theoretical and political decision. Qualitative
methodology constitutes an approach that is essential for
understanding people’s experiences of well-being and discovering
new issues related to quality of life.
The study of quality of life refers to the material environment
(social welfare) and psychosocial environment (wellbeing). It has
been defined as a concept that implies the objective and subjective
dimension that Cummins (1997) first studied in seven domains. The
use of domains in the quality of life study allows a more precise
measurement than the one that could have been reached through
simple questions, since psychometric scales are used and if the
addition of domains is equivalent to the totality of life
satisfaction, then the group of domains is a valid measure of
quality of life. In the case of young people, it has been observed
that even if they live in negative physical, social and contextual
conditions, they can nevertheless experience a relatively positive
experience in relation to their quality of life, depending on the
strategies and capabilities that they generate in relation to the
context. Similarly, young people that live in favorable
socioeconomic conditions and with a trouble free psychological
situation may experience a relatively poor evaluation of their
position in life (Patrick et al). oung people do not form a
homogenous group and, in this sense, it is not possible to
generalize about youth; they interact with the environment in which
they live and they are a product of the history they happen to
live, in this way they transit different vital scenarios in daily
life that affect their quality of life. The social representations
about youth that each population has, in each historical moment,
are embedded in the social context in which young people live and
develop, conditioning every-day life and /or creating related
stereotypes. The concept of youth is a social construction built
conjointly by all members of society in the historical moment in
which they live. Young people interact with the environment in
which they live and they are a product of the history they happen
to live. Authors like Urresti (1999) define youth from a point of
view that takes into account the living together of different
generations in different societies, thus being impossible to
compare young people of today with those of two or three decades
ago; in addition, he states that it is necessary to situate the
understanding of youth within the historical and social moment in
which they live. Nowadays the predominant adult model is based in
individualism, and even if an intergenerational dialogue is
necessary, it is difficult for young people to achieve this kind of
communication with adults that, in some cases, are living "stages
of youth" or that need to be "forever young". Young people live in
uncertainty, with a limited perspective for future action,
assigning their own meaning to events and facts, according to their
fundamental concerns that are significantly different from those of
their parents' generation. In the other side the process of
globalization and the protagonist social role of the new
informational and communicational technologies, produce that the
possibilities to expand individual freedoms increase, but not all
young people can manage with it (Lechner, 2002). What young people
need in order to construct their citizenship and feel satisfied,
varies according to the different societies, especially considering
that most of them live a fragile situation. As Cortina (2003:7-9)
states, the idea of citizenship always transcends individualism,
because the citizen is somebody that exists together with others,
and those others are equal to him before the city, is somebody that
deliberates with others, that acts with others conjointly, that
assumes the protagonist role of his own life, in this way citizen
is not only that who the law protects, but that who participates in
the public issues. Speaking about young people we propose to
recognize them from their equal dignity because "recognition is not
only a courtesy that we owe others: it is an essential human need"
(Taylor, 1993:46). This recognition is based in human dignity and
tends to protect the basic rights of people as individuals and to
recognize the particular needs of people as members of specific
cultural groups (Gutman, 1993:20). This brief book is dedicated to
analyze the relations between quality of life and construction of
citizenship of young people in Argentina, considering two specific
social scenarios: the community and the university. In the case of
community it is important to note that it not imply uniformity, as
community means the inclusion of diversity and the achievement of
sharing within it, and in the case of university it will be
necessary to recognize that as an educational institution the
university has expanded his traditional role of production of
knowledge, to be an institution of social reference and social
support for students. To do this the author will show some of the
results of a decade of research in quality of life and young
people, using quantitative and qualitative methods.
The focus of this book is centered on the participation of children
in countries of the South. In this sense, it will review the
possibilities of children's participation, as well as their forms
of participation in different contexts of daily life. There has
been a tendency to underestimate children's role as active
constructors of their surrounding social space, as well as of the
internalized interpretations of the way social life operates. Today
it is necessary to recognize that children are agents actively
involved in the construction of their own lives and the life of the
societies they live in; and in this sense, it is important to
consider and re-signify the participation of boys and girls as a
fundamental pillar in the process of building societies in the 21st
century. The book contains chapters that re-significate children's
participation in different countries from South America and South
Africa, in relation with different topics: well-being, methods,
citizenship, poverty, education, rurality, ethics and human rights.
This book analyzes how quality of life research results can be
transferred to policy making, and considers the role of actors in
this process---researchers, policy makers, and citizens---as well
as their interrelationships. This book points to the need to
include actors other than the state in public policy-making related
to quality of life and well-being issues, in defining problems and
formulating alternatives. It identifies obstacles and facilitators
in the process and offers a review of different types of aid that
affect well-being and quality of life. Finally, it shows possible
pathways for various stakeholders in policy-making to interact with
one another in the building of good societies.
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