- Title
- Farewell to Lawrence Schlemmer: initiator of quality-of-life studies in South Africa
- Creator
- Moller, Valerie
- Date Issued
- 2013
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67175
- Identifier
- vital:29055
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-011-9965-8
- Description
- publisher version
- Description
- Professor Lawrence Schlemmer, affectionately known as Lawrie, was the father of South Africa’s quality-of-life studies and social indicators movement. He died on 26 October 2011 at the age of 75 after a short illness. In 1978, Lawrence marched into my office at the Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Natal, brandishing two books. We need to do some work on quality of life in South Africa, he announced, before handing me the volumes. At the time, South Africa’s leaders assumed that smiling black faces meant that South Africans were happy with their lot in life under apartheid. Our surveys were to prove otherwise. That weekend was spent reading cover to cover the classic works by Frank Andrews, Angus Campbell and their colleagues. The next week we pored over lists of concerns voiced by South Africans which we later put to test in the field. In 1982, we submitted our findings by ‘slug’ post to the editor of Social Indicators Research. We received a letter by return mail from Alex Michalos to say he would publish our paper and we should not be too disappointed with our regression results!
- Format
- 2 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Social Indicators Research
- Relation
- Møller, V. (2013) Farewell to Lawrence Schlemmer: initiator of quality-of-life studies in South Africa. Social Indicators Research, 110 (3) p 925-926. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-011-9965-8
- Relation
- Social Indicators Research volume 110 number 3 925 926 February 2013 1573-0921
- Rights
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the National Library of South African Copyright Act (http://www.nlsa.ac.za/downloads/Copyright%20Act.pdf)
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