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Title: | Deconstructing Happiness: Critical Sociology and the Good Life | Contributor(s): | McKenzie, Jordan (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19263 | Abstract: | This book offers an original account of the good life in late modernity through a uniquely sociological lens. It considers the various ways that social and cultural factors can encourage or impede genuine efforts to live a good life by deconstructing the concepts of happiness and contentment within cultural narratives of the good life. Although empirical studies have dominated the discourse on happiness in recent decades, the emphasis on finding causal and correlational relationships has led to a field of research that arguably lacks a reliable theoretical foundation. 'Deconstructing Happiness' offers a step toward developing that foundation by offering characteristically sociological perspectives on the contemporary fascination with happiness and well-being. In doing so, it seeks to understand the good life as a socially mediated experience rather than a purely personal or individually defined way of living. The outcome is a book on happiness, contentment and the good life that considers the influence of democracy, capitalism and progress while also focusing on the more theoretical challenges of self-knowledge, reason and interaction. | Publication Type: | Book | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | New York, United States of America | ISBN: | 9781138832602 9781317565451 |
Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: | 160806 Social Theory 220319 Social Philosophy 160899 Sociology not elsewhere classified |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 441005 Social theory 500321 Social and political philosophy |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society |
HERDC Category Description: | A1 Authored Book - Scholarly | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/221075128 | Extent of Pages: | 158 | Series Name: | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought | Series Number : | 109 |
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