The Happiness Riddle and the Quest for a Good Life 1st Edition by Mark Cieslik ISBN 9781137318824 1137318821

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ISBN 10: 1137318821

ISBN 13: 9781137318824 

Author: Mark Cieslik

 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. 

This book will appeal to students and academics interested in wellbeing, happiness and quality of life and also those researching areas such as the life course, work-life balance, biographies, aging and youth studies.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction: The Happiness Riddle
2. Philosophy and the History of Happiness
3. The Economics of Happiness
4. Positive Psychology and Happiness
5. Psychoanalytical Theory and Happiness
6. Sociological Approaches to Happiness
7. Happiness and Young People
8. The ‘Thirty Somethings’: Happiness in the Late Twenties and Thirties
9. Happiness in Mid Life
10. Happiness in Old Age
11. Conclusions: Making Sense of the Happiness Riddle

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