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Researching happiness : qualitative, biographical and critical perspectives /

This original collection draws on the latest empirical research to explore the practical challenges facing happiness researchers today. By uniquely combining the critical approach of sociology with techniques from other disciplines, the contributors illuminate new qualitative and biographical approa...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cieslik, Mark (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2021.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Researching Happiness: Qualitative, Biographical and Critical Perspectives -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Authors -- 1 Introduction: Developing Qualitative Research into Happiness and Wellbeing -- Sociology and qualitative research into happiness/ wellbeing -- Some issues to consider when conducting qualitative research into happiness/wellbeing -- Definitions of happiness/ wellbeing in qualitative research -- 'Social happiness': understanding happiness as a social process -- Biographies, subjectivities and self- identity -- Theories and methods in qualitative happiness research -- Notes -- References -- Part I Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Theories, Debates and Issues -- 2 Living Well Together: On Happiness, Social Goods and Genuinely Progressive Sociology -- Happiness, social qualities, and moral progress -- Happiness and genuinely 'progressive' sociology -- Social qualities: more than an absence of pathology? -- Confirmatory versus disruptive uses of the 'happiness lens' -- Happiness research and moral progress -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 3 Happiness as an Affective Practice: Self, Suffering and Biography -- Introduction -- The need for a reparative reading of happiness -- The project -- Searching for a definition of happiness -- The trouble with happiness -- Happiness and social life -- Understanding happiness as an affective practice -- Happiness, reflection and biography -- Emotions and reflection -- Emotions, the self and biography -- Using narrative methods to examine experiences of (un)happiness -- The interview -- Analysis -- Edith -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Personal Happiness, Social Unhappiness: Understanding the Complexity of Individual Happiness Accounts -- Introduction -- What is Mass Observation? 
505 8 |a The Mass Observation Panel -- Using the archive -- Personal happiness, social unhappiness? -- Political alienation and dissatisfaction -- Unhappiness, left and right -- Social critique: selfishness and moral decline -- 'Helpless' concern? -- Moral sentiments and elevation -- The defended self? -- Conclusions: implications for happiness and wellbeing research -- Notes -- References -- Part II Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Communities, Biographies and Identities -- 5 Developing a Biographical Approach to Happiness and Wellbeing -- Introduction -- Reviewing the literature: what is happiness and how to study it? -- Theories and methods for researching biographies of happiness/wellbeing -- Jill and Mary: ageing and happiness across the life course -- Social networks, sociability and wellbeing -- Biographies and wellbeing: how social networks evolve over the life course to influence happiness -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 6 Considering the Body in Happiness Research -- Introduction -- Background to the study -- Contours of the research -- Some themes and findings -- understandings about the body -- The negotiated body, 'mindfully embodied philosophies to live by' -- Tackling fluid, intangible concepts -- How I changed doing wellbeing research -- a health warning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 How Cultural Heritage can Contribute to Community Development and Wellbeing -- Introduction -- Case Study 1: Portsoy -- Case Study 2: the Comainn Eachdraidh in the Outer Hebrides -- Cultural heritage and cultural capital -- Cultural heritage and social capital -- Cultural heritage and a sense of place -- Cultural heritage and community -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 8 On Post-traumatic Growth and 'Choosing' to be Happy: Stories of Positive Change from African Refugees and Asylum Seekers -- Introduction. 
505 8 |a The 'goodness' in life -- Post-traumatic growth -- Refugees and PTG -- A cautionary note on using PTG -- The importance of narratives -- The setting(s) -- Methodology -- Findings -- A note on religion and spirituality -- New possibilities in life -- Changed relationships -- Multiple domains in one -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Using Social Wellbeing to Inform Regeneration Strategies in a Former Colliery Town in Northern England -- Introduction -- A three-dimensional approach to social wellbeing -- Applying the 3D framework in practice -- Method 1 -- community profile -- Community profile -- focus groups -- Points on analysis -- Community profile -- key person interviews -- Points on analysis -- Method 2: material wellbeing -- Methods 3 and 4 -- researching relational and subjective wellbeing using a semi-structured interview -- Relational and subjective interviews -- Points on analysis -- Method 5 -- feedback focus groups -- Points on analysis -- Seaham: wellbeing in the wake of deindustrialization -- Data analysis: emerging themes -- Reflections on using a 3D wellbeing framework -- Implications for regeneration strategies in Seaham -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part III Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Methodological Innovations -- 10 A Board Game Approach to Studying the Multidimensionality of Life Satisfaction -- Introduction -- The concern for culture in happiness research -- Methodological considerations -- Intercultural research and issues of intimacy and gender -- Location: rurality and access to the field -- Interviewees -- Tripartite interview structure -- Part 1: warm-up -- associations and definitions -- Part 2: a bullseye view on life satisfaction -- Part 3: links to quantitative research -- Findings -- Part 1: diversities of definitions -- Part 2: the multidimensionality of life satisfaction. 
505 8 |a Part 3: happiness as goal -- between reality and ideal -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11 'Show Me What Makes You Happy at Work': Visualizing Happiness in the Workplace -- Introduction -- Synergy of narrative and visual studies -- Data collection with participants -- Three data-collection phases -- Can happiness be photographed? The challenges of using visual methods -- Challenges for the participants -- Challenges for researchers -- 'It is second nature' -- the benefits of using visual methods in happiness research -- Using visual methods: the benefits for the participants -- Using visual methods: the advantages for researchers -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover. 
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650 0 |a Well-being  |x Research  |x Methodology. 
650 0 |a Quality of life  |x Evaluation. 
650 0 |a Social indicators. 
650 6 |a Bonheur  |x Recherche  |x Méthodologie. 
650 6 |a Bien-être  |x Recherche  |x Méthodologie. 
650 6 |a Qualité de la vie  |x Évaluation. 
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