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,Aktan, C.C. “ Understanding Change Trends and Dynamics in a Rapidly Changing World ” , in: Qafqaz and Central Asia in a Globalization Era, (International Conference Organized by Qafqaz University, Bakı- Azerbaijan, 2–5 May 2007. URL Jay A. Weinstein, Social and Cultural Change URL Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. economic inequality,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. URL macromarketing,Paswan, Audhesh K. and Trang P. Tran. Vietnam and Entrepreneurial Private Enterprises: A Macromarketing Perspective. Journal of Macromarketing December 7, 2011. URL Gender and rural development,Deji, Olanike F. Gender and Rural Development. LIT Verlag Münster, 2011 organizational change,Langer, Josef, Nikša Alfirević, and Jurica Pavicic. 2005. Organizational Change in Transition Societies. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. capitalism,Giorgio Baruchello, Good and Bad Capitalism. Re-thinking Value, Human Needs, and the Aims of Economic Activity. 2009. abstract is here URL tourism,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, URL 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. URL Geraldine and Mottiar, Ziene, "Contemporary Issues in Irish and Global Tourism and Hospitality" (2010). Books / Book chapters. Paper 15. URL economic growth,Eff, E. Anthon, and Rionero, Giuseppe. The Motor of Growth? Parental Investment and per capita GDP. World Cultures eJournal, 18(1), 2011 URL urban sustainability,C. Fu, J. Tah, G. Aouad, R. Cooper. Developing An Integrated Database For Urban Sustainability Analysis. 3rd International SCRI Symposium on April 2006 in Delft, The Netherlands URL regionalism and policyLeonardo 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. and especially in the area of quality of life.Hasan, Lubna. 2008. Cities and Quality of Life-Should We Monitor Pakistani Cities? Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, working paper 2008: 46 URL W. Wyrwich and Cynthia R. Gross, Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine. Chapter in Sleep and Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine. Joris C. Verster, S. R. Pandi-Perumal and David L. Streiner. URL Umunnakwe Johnbosco and A.O. Nnaji. Influence of Landuse Patterns on Otamiri River, Owerri and Urban Quality of Life. Pak. J. Nutr., 10 (11): 1053-1057, 2011 URL 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 URL H.; Kaasa, A.; Tamm, K. (2009). Level of Living and Well-being as Measures of Welfare: Evidence from European Countries. Discussions on Estonian Economic Policy (61 - 80). Listed here at Dr. Kaasa's page URL Özgür and Aylin Çakıroğlu Çevik, Quality of Life in Ageing Societies: Italy, Portugal, and Turkey. Educational Gerontology, Volume 37, Issue 11, 2011, pages 945-966. URL 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. In addition to producing social change reports, staff from the project have written on applied sociology throughout the world,Gene Shackman, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. Doing Sociology Around the World. In Doing Sociology. Jammie Price, Jeff Breese, and Roger Straus. Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. July 2009. URL conducted research about China,Jiaming Sun and Xun Wang, “ Value Differences between Generations in China: A Study in Shanghai". Journal of Youth Studies, 1:65-81. (2010) URL Xun. Review of The Structure and Evolution of Chinese Social Stratification, Yi Li. In Journal of Asian and African Studies 2006 41: 521-523. URL and reviewed books on various topics such as applied statistics for public policy,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. democracy and governanceGene Shackman. Review of Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence. Feng, Yi. in International Social Science Review, Vol 79(3&4), 2004. Available at URL and history.Gene Shackman. Review of The Human Tradition in America: 1865 to the Present. Charles W. Calhoun (ed). In International Social Science Review, Vol 79(1&2), 2004. Available at URL 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 Major Areas of Study Some of the major reports from the study describe available indicators on the web to measure Quality of lifeGene 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 URL or progress of the world.Gene Shackman, Ya-Lin Liu, and Xun Wang, Global Social Change Research Project: Measuring Progress of the World. The New England Sociological Association 2009 Spring Conference. Springfield, MA, April 2009. Abstract here URL Recent reports show that , recently, World population growth is slowing,Shackman, Gene, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. 2011. Brief review of world population trends. Available at URL and that , recently, inequality in Infant mortality rates between developing and developed countries is declining, mainly because infant mortality rates among developed countries is now very low, and so has stopped declining.Shackman, Gene, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. 2011. Brief Review of Trends in World Infant Mortality Rate. The Global Social Change Research Project. Available at URL Category:Social change Category 
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,Aktan, C.C. " Understanding Change Trends and Dynamics in a Rapidly Changing World " , in: Qafqaz and Central Asia in a Globalization Era, (International Conference Organized by Qafqaz University, Bakı- Azerbaijan, 2–5 May 2007. URL Jay A. Weinstein, Social and Cultural Change URL Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. economic inequality,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. URL macromarketing,Paswan, Audhesh K. and Trang P. Tran. Vietnam and Entrepreneurial Private Enterprises: A Macromarketing Perspective. Journal of Macromarketing December 7, 2011. URL gender and rural development,Deji, Olanike F. Gender and Rural Development. LIT Verlag Münster, 2011 organizational change,Langer, Josef, Nikša Alfirević, and Jurica Pavicic. 2005. Organizational Change in Transition Societies. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. capitalism,Giorgio Baruchello, Good and Bad Capitalism. Re-thinking Value, Human Needs, and the Aims of Economic Activity. 2009. abstract is here URL tourism,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, URL 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. URL Geraldine and Mottiar, Ziene, "Contemporary Issues in Irish and Global Tourism and Hospitality" (2010). Books / Book chapters. Paper 15. URL economic growth,Eff, E. Anthon, and Rionero, Giuseppe. The Motor of Growth? Parental Investment and per capita GDP. World Cultures eJournal, 18(1), 2011 URL urban sustainability,C. Fu, J. Tah, G. Aouad, R. Cooper. Developing An Integrated Database For Urban Sustainability Analysis. 3rd International SCRI Symposium on April 2006 in Delft, The Netherlands URL regionalism and policyLeonardo 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. and especially in the area of quality of life.Hasan, Lubna. 2008. Cities and Quality of Life-Should We Monitor Pakistani Cities? Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, working paper 2008: 46 URL W. Wyrwich and Cynthia R. Gross, Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine. Chapter in Sleep and Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine. Joris C. Verster, S. R. Pandi-Perumal and David L. Streiner. URL Umunnakwe Johnbosco and A.O. Nnaji. Influence of Landuse Patterns on Otamiri River, Owerri and Urban Quality of Life. Pak. J. Nutr., 10 (11): 1053-1057, 2011 URL 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 URL H.; Kaasa, A.; Tamm, K. (2009). Level of Living and Well-being as Measures of Welfare: Evidence from European Countries. Discussions on Estonian Economic Policy (61 - 80). Listed here at Dr. Kaasa's page URL Özgür and Aylin Çakıroğlu Çevik, Quality of Life in Ageing Societies: Italy, Portugal, and Turkey. Educational Gerontology, Volume 37, Issue 11, 2011, pages 945-966. URL 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. In addition to producing social change reports, staff from the project have written on applied sociology throughout the world,Gene Shackman, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. Doing Sociology Around the World. In Doing Sociology. Jammie Price, Jeff Breese, and Roger Straus. Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. July 2009. URL conducted research about China,Jiaming Sun and Xun Wang, " Value Differences between Generations in China: A Study in Shanghai". Journal of Youth Studies, 1:65-81. (2010) URL Xun. Review of The Structure and Evolution of Chinese Social Stratification, Yi Li. In Journal of Asian and African Studies 2006 41: 521-523. URL and reviewed books on various topics such as applied statistics for public policy,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. democracy and governanceGene Shackman. Review of Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence. Feng, Yi. in International Social Science Review, Vol 79(3&4), 2004. Available at URL and history.Gene Shackman. Review of The Human Tradition in America: 1865 to the Present. Charles W. Calhoun (ed). In International Social Science Review, Vol 79(1&2), 2004. Available at URL 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 Major areas of study Some of the major reports from the study describe available indicators on the web to measure quality of lifeGene 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 URL or progress of the world.Gene Shackman, Ya-Lin Liu, and Xun Wang, Global Social Change Research Project: Measuring Progress of the World. The New England Sociological Association 2009 Spring Conference. Springfield, MA, April 2009. Abstract here URL Reports in 2011 showed that world population growth was slowing,Shackman, Gene, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. 2011. Brief review of world population trends. Available at URL 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.Shackman, Gene, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. 2011. Brief Review of Trends in World Infant Mortality Rate. The Global Social Change Research Project. Available at URL Category:Social change Category :Projects established in 200
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