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This book, published originally in 1980, addressed the needs for a
profile of televised violence which considered the advantages and
disadvantages of various measures and for a furthering of research
directions beyond the then-popular emphasis on children. The
Committee on Television and Social Behavior was formed in1972 and
stimulated new research in order to provide a multidimensional
profile of the social effects of television programming. Chapters
here look at the effect of television on adults as well as
children, particularly special audiences such as the elderly and
minority groups. An excellent summary of the various conceptual,
substantive and methodological issues around television's
influence.
This is a study about perceptions of well-being. Its purpose is to
investigate how these perceptions are organized in the minds of
different groups of American adults, to find valid and efficient
ways of measuring these percep tions, to suggest ways these
measurement methods could be implemented to yield a series of
social indicators, and to provide some initial readings on these
indicators; i.e., some information about the levels of well-being
perceived by Americans. The findings are based on data from more
than five thousand Americans and include results from four separate
representative samplings of the American population. One of the
ways our research is unusual is that it includes a major
methodological component. Typical surveys involve a modest effort
at instru ment development, the application of the instrument to a
group of respondents, and an analysis of the resulting data that
mainly describes the people studied. Our work, however, was
implemented in a series of sequential cycles, each of which
consisted of conceptual development, instrument design, data
collection, analysis, and interpretation. Ideas and findings
generated in prior cycles affected the design of subsequent cycles.
This book, published originally in 1980, addressed the needs for a
profile of televised violence which considered the advantages and
disadvantages of various measures and for a furthering of research
directions beyond the then-popular emphasis on children. The
Committee on Television and Social Behavior was formed in1972 and
stimulated new research in order to provide a multidimensional
profile of the social effects of television programming. Chapters
here look at the effect of television on adults as well as
children, particularly special audiences such as the elderly and
minority groups. An excellent summary of the various conceptual,
substantive and methodological issues around television's
influence.
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