The Happiness Riddle and the Quest for a Good Life - Softcover

Cieslik, Mark

 
9781349592241: The Happiness Riddle and the Quest for a Good Life
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ISBN 10: 1349592242 ISBN 13: 9781349592241
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

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Mark Cieslik is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Northumbria University, UK. He established the British Sociological Association Happiness Study Group in 2009.     

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This book examines the meaning of happiness in Britain today, and observes that although we face challenges such as austerity, climate change and disenchantment with politics, we continue to be interested in happiness and living well. The author illustrates how happiness is a far more contested, social process than is often portrayed by economists and psychologists, and takes issue with sociologists who often regard wellbeing and the happiness industry with suspicion, whilst neglecting one of the key features of being human – the quest for a good life. Exploring themes that question what it means to be happy and live a good life in Britain today, such as the challenges young people face making their way through education and into their first jobs; work life-balance; mid-life crises; and old age, the book presents nineteen life stories that call for a far more critical and ambitious approach to happiness research that marries the radicalism of sociology, with recent advances in psychology and economics.   

 

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1349592242
ISBN 13 
9781349592241
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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