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Social Happiness: Theory into Policy and Practice

Autor Neil Thin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 ian 2012
In recent years, happiness has seized the imaginations of both social researchers and policymakers with remarkable speed. Social Happiness examines the achievements and potential of applied happiness scholarship in a variety of contexts and argues that progressive policies must explicitly consider happiness. Neil Thin expertly traces the rise of the theme of happiness in scholarship, policy, and moral discourse and then explores the practical implications for happiness studies in a range of social experiences, including relationship guidance, parenting, schooling, gender reform, work-life harmony, and rethinking old age.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847429209
ISBN-10: 1847429203
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press

Notă biografică

Neil Thin is a senior lecturer in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh and coauthor of several books.

Cuprins

List of tables and boxes
About the author
Acknowledgements
Preface

Part One: Happiness in policy discourse and research
1. Introduction: prosperity debates and the happiness lens
2. What really matters: concepts, evaluations and objections
3. Effects of happiness (and unhappiness)
4. Thinking ourselves happy: on the policy relevance of both subjectivity and objectivity
5. Who makes happiness happen? On emotion work and psychosocial contagion
6. Governance and responsiblity: towards the eudaimonic state?
7. Assessing happiness: measurement and beyond
8. Correlations and causal theories
Part Two: Social happiness in policy and practice
9. Love: fighting philophobia around the world
10. The shape of good hope: cultivating reasonable aspirations
11. Positive parenting and cheerful childlessness
12. Schooling for joy
13. New gender agendas: feel-good feminism for fun and fulfilment
14. Working for happiness, happily work, and work-life harmony
15. Shopping for happiness: corporate happwash and consumption ethics
16. Geronto-eudaimonics: late-life thriving for all
17. Conclusions: review and prospects

References
Index