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Quantitative understanding of responsibility

Other Names:
Responsibility limited by measurable factors
Disregard for soft variables
Neglect of qualitative factors
Broader Problems:
Narrow context for counsel
Unshared mutual responsibility
Over-simplification of social concepts
Narrower Problems:
Emphasis on family survival
Failure to take account of externalities of systems
Related Problems:
Social costs of substance abuse
Aggravates:
Social disguise of ambiguity
Fragmented social responsibility
Legal contract system reduced to individual needs
Isolation of individual decision-making from context
Downgrading of services with nonquantifiable long-term benefits
Failure to relate application of ability to situational demands in vocational decisions
Reduces:
Diffuseness of regulatory authority
Strategies:
Giving attention to qualitative factors
Limiting understanding to measurable factors
Values:
Responsibility
Understanding
Disregard
Irresponsibility
Limitedness
Misunderstanding
Neglect
Subject(s):
Societal Problems → Deprivation
Research, Standards → Measurement
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 1: No Poverty
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems
Date of last update
08.03.1997 – 00:00 CET

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

About UIA

The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.
 

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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