The Global Social Change Research Project is a project devoted to bringing a clear understanding to the general public about social change. They have reports about social, political, economic, demographic and technological change throughout the world.
This project was started shortly before 2000. Since the project started producing reports, their reports have been cited in a wide variety of academic topics, such as general global social and economic transformation,[1][2] economic inequality,[3] macromarketing,[4] gender and rural development,[5] organizational change,[6] capitalism,[7] tourism,[8][9][10] economic growth,[11] urban sustainability,[12] regionalism and policy[13] and especially in the area of quality of life.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
In addition to producing social change reports, staff from the project have written on applied sociology throughout the world,[21] conducted research about China,[22][23] and reviewed books on various topics such as applied statistics for public policy,[24] democracy and governance[25] and history.[26][27][28]
Reports from the project have been cited by a number of texts and studies, such as a course on sustainable development,[29] a chapter in a book on transnational education,[30] a chapter in a book on demographic changes and tourism,[31] and a paper on political regimes and education.[32]
Some of the major reports from the study describe available indicators on the web to measure quality of life[33] or progress of the world.[34] Reports in 2011 showed that world population growth was slowing,[35] and that inequality in infant mortality rates between developing and developed countries was declining, mainly because infant mortality rates among developed countries had become very low, and so stopped declining.[36]
One of the main conclusions from the population trend reports is that from 1950 to 2010, the distribution of world population changed significantly. The largest change was that Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean increased from 17.3% to 25% of the world population while Northern America and Europe declined from 22.7% to 12.4%. Asia changed little, only increasing from 60% of world population to 63%.[citation needed]
Atweh, Bill and Bland, Derek C. (2007) Action Research in Contexts of Change and Inequality. In: Atweh, Bill and Balagtas, Marilyn and Bernado, Allan and Ferido, Marlene and Macpherson, Ian, (eds.) Ripples of change: A journey of teacher education reform in the Philippines. Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Philippines, Philippines, pp. 193-219. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16747/ Deji, Olanike F. Gender and Rural Development. LIT Verlag Münster, 2011
Langer, Josef, Nikša Alfirević, and Jurica Pavicic. 2005. Organizational Change in Transition Societies. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Tom Baum, Demographic change and labour supply in global tourism to 2030: a tentative assessment. Chapter 5 in Contemporary Issues in Irish and Global Tourism and Hospitality. Geraldine Gorham, Ziene Mottiar, http://arrow.dit.ie/tfschhmtbook/15/ Baum, T. (2010) Demographic changes and the labour market in the international tourism industry. In: How Demography Will Shape the Future of the Tourism and Leisure Industries: Where Have all the People Gone? Goodfellow, Oxford. http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/15794/ Gorham, Geraldine and Mottiar, Ziene, "Contemporary Issues in Irish and Global Tourism and Hospitality" (2010). Books / Book chapters. Paper 15. http://arrow.dit.ie/tfschhmtbook/15/ Leonardo Baccini, Andreas Dür. The New Regionalism and Policy Interdependence. Paper presented at the 66th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 3–6, 2008.
Wyrwich, Kathleen W.; Gross, Cynthia R. (2008), Verster, Joris C.; Pandi-Perumal, S. R.; Streiner, David L. (eds.), "Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine", Sleep and Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, pp. 1–9, doi:10.1007/978-1-60327-343-5_1, ISBN 978-1-60327-343-5, retrieved 2023-11-29 Křupka Jiří, Jirava Pavel, Kašparová Miloslava and Mandys Jan. Quality of life investigation case study in the Czech Republic. Proceeding FSKD'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery - Volume 1 IEEE Press Piscataway, NJ, USA ©2009 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1800544 Ryan, Diane M. and Lolita M. Burrell. What they deserve: quality of life in the US military. Chapter 26 in The Oxford Handbook of Military Psychology. Janice H. Laurence, Michael D. Matthews. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Wang Xun. Review of The Structure and Evolution of Chinese Social Stratification, Yi Li. In Journal of Asian and African Studies 2006 41: 521-523. http://jas.sagepub.com/ Gene Shackman. Review of Applied Statistics for Public Policy. by Brian Macfie and Philip Nufrio. In March 2006 issue of Journal of Official Statistics. Page 166-168.
Gene Shackman and Ya-Lin Liu. Review of Transforming Post Communist Political Economies, Nelson, Tilly and Walker (eds), in the April 2002 issue of Teaching Sociology.
Gene Shackman. Review of How Societies Change by Daniel Chirot, in the April 2001 issue of Teaching Sociology
Gene Shackman, Ya-Lin Liu and Xun Wang. Measuring quality of life using free and public domain data. Social Research Update, Issue 47, Autumn, 2005. Available at http://sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/
