2014
Individual quality of life
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Abstract
The term “individual quality of life” is used to denote how well a person lives. The individual quality of the lives of multiple persons can be aggregated to obtain a number that reflect the typical quality of life in a collectivity, such as a nation. Yet the concept does not apply to social systems. One cannot say that a society lives well, since societies do not “live.” Individual quality of life is synonymous with individual well-being. Unlike “quality of life,” the term “well-being” can also be applied on social systems. One can say that a nation is well. In this case one must realize that the well-being of the social system does not necessarily concur with the well-being (individual quality of life) of the people who live in that system (Veenhoven, 2009).
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| doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_1453, hdl.handle.net/1765/77325 | |
| Organisation | Department of Sociology |
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Veenhoven, R. (2014). Individual quality of life. In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (pp. 3236–3237). doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_1453 |
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