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1 online resource (193 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Sustainability Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Sustainability Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter outline; References; Part I; Designing a values-based framework; 1 Why values?; Whose values?; Measuring intangibles; Eliciting shared values; Emergent processes: learning from research through design; References; 2 Articulating values, designing processes; Values and their indicators; Developing processes; Developing a 'toolkit'; Note; References; 3 Developing a values-based approach: the case of Echeri; Testing the use of values and proto-indicators |
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Agreeing and measuring indicators localized from the proto-indicatorsVariations in the structural importance of values; Participation, localization and evaluation; What we learnt: significant lessons from the field; References; Part II; Key themes in measuring intangible social values; 4 Issues in making values tangible; Values and subjectivity; Linking values with actions; From toolkit to system; Implications for action research and evaluation; Notes; References; 5 Designing processes: the criticality of deep participation; A realisation that process details were key |
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Relating aspects of participation across disciplinesIntegrating depth, breadth and scope (+ output); Notes; References; 6 Values and validity; Exploring our content validity; Assigning assessment tools to indicators; Assigning value-related meanings to assessment data; Framework implementation and construct-validity; Validity and potential bias; Increasing validity through triangulation; Conclusion: towards a different kind of validity; References; Part III; Putting a values-based framework into practice; 7 Sustainability and business ethics; Sustainability as an ethical process |
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The underlying ethics of sustainabilityPurpose, paradigm and context of the study; Developing and using values-based indicators in organizations; How the data was collected and analysed; Values conceptualization; Esteem-related outcomes; Assessment capacity building; Values mainstreaming and internal transformation; External communications; Our approach and its impact on business ethics; Values in organizations: towards ethics in practice; Making paradigms in business ethics research explicit; References; 8 Mapping social legacies; Revealing groups' intangible legacies |
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The importance of Arts and Humanities approachesNote; References; 9 Towards sustainable behaviour change in schools; Selecting values indicators, designing a process; Testing the prototype school's toolkit; Concluding thoughts on the school's toolkit; Note; References; Conclusion: what happens when values are central; The twin functions of measurement and transformation; Learning lessons about values-based approaches; Learning lessons for research through design; Making values central: towards an ethics and societal impact; References; Appendix; Set 1 Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs) |
| Summary |
This book explores the complex problem of how to measure the 'success' of social organisations, projects and activities. Whether improving a local situation, organizing a campaign around sustainability, or assessing the intangible effects of perceived social benefits, currently we have only have a very limited range of mechanisms for judging effectiveness. On the one hand, a market-driven logic demands that qualitative perceptions and experiences are quantified into simplified and numerically defined variables. On the other, community projects are left un-assessed, as one-off outcomes of local and situated processes that must somehow automatically 'make things better'. For academics, researchers and other professionals working in this field this has resulted in the deep frustration of not being able to assess the things that are most centrally important: higher human values such as integrity, trust, respect, equality and social justice. Measuring Intangible Values argues that we can make shared social values - and their measurement - central to decisions about improving civil society. But because these social values are intangible, we need to develop ways of eliciting and validating them at the local level that can capture people's shared meanings across multiple goals and perspectives. We need to develop mechanisms for evaluating whether these values are met that use rigorous but also relevant measures. And we need to develop ways of doing this that are scalable, transferable and comparable across different kinds of organisations and fields of activity. This book will be valuable for researchers in all social science disciplines which touch on human values, such as sociology, social psychology, human geography, social policy, architecture and planning, design and community studies |
| Notes |
Set 1 Indicators for 'Respect and Care for the Community of Life' |
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Social values.
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Social movements -- Evaluation
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Social Values
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community projects.
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human values.
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measuring values.
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social benefits.
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social justice.
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social organisations.
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social values.
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sustainability.
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Social values
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burford, Gemma
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| ISBN |
9781351627344 |
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1351627341 |
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9781351627337 |
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1351627333 |
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9781351627320 |
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1351627325 |
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9781315114316 |
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1315114313 |
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