In countries like the United States whose influence can be felt internationally, surveyors need to have more humility when engaging with societies that are not of the same self-actualized achievement. Being able to recognize differences in society and within societies aside from generalizations that are easily made will provide the surveyor more knowledge in presenting information to the public that contains less impairments in the data gathered… Two important beginning questions that must be asked when looking at statistics and “blind information” are: 1. Where is the source coming from? 2. Who/what is the credibility in the production of knowledge? These questions become important because without knowing the validity of either of these,
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On the subject of indices ways in finding an answer have become numerous and often has conflicting numbers depending on what boundaries the producer of knowledge sets and the “weight distributions” that are used when calculating a final number to fit within the ranking.
Thesis:: In this argument I will explain what the index for Quality of Life is and what its implications are, the influence of Abraham Maslow, in regards to QOL I will argue a short discourse of a Foucauldian and Clifford Geertz perspective in light of finding some way to create some validity in finding more accurate ways of producing a rating …show more content…
By using Geertz’s definition, it demonstrates defining boundaries of finding the satisfaction to fulfill criteria in the QOL Index (education, health/well-being, wealth, safety, democracy) within different societies. Being able to create these boundaries means that when surveyors go out in the field to find information to meet the criteria a definition will more clearly define what they are looking for. The definition of religion as a social structure gives a guideline for where in society we may look for religion where in some societies it may be all encompassing rather than a separate system, the criteria such as health, environment, and education can also be observed similarly. Geertz is also helpful in using a comparison strategy in finding validity of the data and ways that the data is presented. Below (fig. 2 & 3) are two different QOL indexes from 2013. In comparing the two indexes; Numbeo’s research for 2013 has 67 countries that it received numerical information whereas the EIU’s research polled 80 countries. The first difficulty
On the subject of indices ways in finding an answer have become numerous and often has conflicting numbers depending on what boundaries the producer of knowledge sets and the “weight distributions” that are used when calculating a final number to fit within the ranking.
Thesis:: In this argument I will explain what the index for Quality of Life is and what its implications are, the influence of Abraham Maslow, in regards to QOL I will argue a short discourse of a Foucauldian and Clifford Geertz perspective in light of finding some way to create some validity in finding more accurate ways of producing a rating …show more content…
By using Geertz’s definition, it demonstrates defining boundaries of finding the satisfaction to fulfill criteria in the QOL Index (education, health/well-being, wealth, safety, democracy) within different societies. Being able to create these boundaries means that when surveyors go out in the field to find information to meet the criteria a definition will more clearly define what they are looking for. The definition of religion as a social structure gives a guideline for where in society we may look for religion where in some societies it may be all encompassing rather than a separate system, the criteria such as health, environment, and education can also be observed similarly. Geertz is also helpful in using a comparison strategy in finding validity of the data and ways that the data is presented. Below (fig. 2 & 3) are two different QOL indexes from 2013. In comparing the two indexes; Numbeo’s research for 2013 has 67 countries that it received numerical information whereas the EIU’s research polled 80 countries. The first difficulty