Wellbeing : challenging the Anglo-Saxon hegemony / Catherine Coron and Louise Dalingwater (eds)

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Book
Language
French
Published/​Created
  • Paris : Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, [2017].
  • © 2017
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189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    "The authors of this volume set out to find whether there are any specific cultural features of the Anglo-American notion of wellbeing or whether there is a specific model. Among the wealth of literature on wellbeing over the last few years, a number of studies (mainly empirical) have analysed the impact of different cultures on wellbeing. Nevertheless, studies of the influence of culture and different civilisations have tended to take a very broad perspective (East-West, the Western world vs the developing world, collective vs individualistic cultures). This volume takes quite a different approach by exploring the influence of culture within the Anglosphere and more particularly Anglo-American wellbeing, to examine whether two countries, with similar cultural roots and strong adherence to neo-liberal policies, conceive of wellbeing in the same manner."--Page 4 of cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Pt. 1. I Historical Approach to Conceptualising Wellbeing
    • The Felicific Calculus: Jeremy Bentham's Definition of Happiness
    • Reconciling Ethics and Economics : Amartya Sen's Concept of Wellbeing
    • Pt. 2. Pt. 1. Towards an Anglo-American Definition of Wellbeing
    • "Fifty Shades of Happiness": The Challenge of Defining Wellbeing in the United States
    • Wellbeing: a Genuine British Cultural, Social and Economic Notion ?
    • Pt. 3. Pt. 1. Politics and Policy in the Wellbeing Debate
    • Measuring Wellbeing in an Age of Austerity
    • The Political Economy of Wellbeing in England : Whither the Quality of Governance ?
    • Defining Wellbeing at the Local Level : Illustration of a Neo-liberal Construct ?
    • Pt. 4. Pt. 1. Alternatives to Anglo-American Wellbeing Conceptualisation ?
    • British Policies to Measure Wellbeing at Work and the Influence of the Neo-Liberal Model
    • What Wellbeing and Harmony Mean for the Navajo
    • Confucianism Promoted as an Alternative to the Anglo-Saxon Social-Cultural Model.
    ISBN
    • 9782878547115 ((pbk.))
    • 287854711X
    LCCN
    2014491683
    OCLC
    996402055
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