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.
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History of the project
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, economic inequality, macromarketing, Gender and rural development, organizational change, capitalism, tourism, economic growth, urban sustainability, regionalism and policy and especially in the area of quality of life.
In addition to producing social change reports, staff from the project have written on applied sociology throughout the world, conducted research about China, and reviewed books on various topics such as applied statistics for public policy, democracy and governance and history.
Reports from the project have been cited by a number of texts and studies, such as a course on sustainable development, a chapter in a book on transnational education, a chapter in a book on demographic changes and tourism, and a paper on political regimes and education.
Major Areas of Study
Some of the major reports from the study describe available indicators on the web to measure Quality of life or progress of the world. Recent reports show that, recently, World population growth is slowing, and that, recently, inequality in Infant mortality rates between developing and developed countries is declining, mainly because infant mortality rates among developed countries has stopped declining.