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<br />()32:~ <br /> <br />framework to convert "data" into trul.y usefuL and appropriate. <br /> <br />"social information." <br /> <br />Based upon substantial conceptual and empirical. research <br /> <br />activity carried out over the past four years, three concepts <br /> <br />have emerged as being. useful to organize sociaL infbrma,tion. <br /> <br />'" <br /> <br />These. concepts have been cited by various resea-rchers, in the:, <br /> <br />field, and recently, by the Environmental Protection Agency in <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />its' work with respect to environmental improvement and. human <br /> <br />life quality., The, concepts may be usefully labeled, as Quality <br /> <br />of Life, Social Well Being, and Relative Social Relationship. <br /> <br />Each deserves a brief comment. <br /> <br />The conceRt of: quality of. life is fundamentally oriented <br /> <br />toward the indLvidual; he, or' she is the unit" of concern.. <br /> <br />Effec.ts <br /> <br />of public, works' can have drastic' effects. on' lives-. <br /> <br />I"n addition <br /> <br />to creating benefi ts, social programs may result" in., disruption <br /> <br />of work life.,. family life., or "life style.'" Effects --.. both <br /> <br />[losi tive. and ne,gati ve -_. are fel t in terms of the, quali ty of: <br /> <br />housing, the environment. people live in, community stability, <br /> <br />etc:. <br /> <br />Recent work. by. Abt Associates has resulted in the: <br /> <br />development. of. more than 300 preliminary measures'. of such, <br /> <br />effec,ts:. <br /> <br />The. concept of socia'!. welL being, though rel'evant. to <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />individual', lives: and cultural patterns, focuses more,on the., <br /> <br />communities, in which families, and. cult,ural. g.roups, live. and <br /> <br />,; <br /> <br />on the institutions which serve. them. <br /> <br />An. illustrative. dis,- <br /> <br />tinction can be made in the. area. of heaTth.. Theomorhidity <br /> <br />characteristics. of" a community telL a grea.t. deal, about t'he <br /> <br />14, <br />