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Deconstructing Happiness Critical Sociology and the Good Life
By Jordan McKenzie
Copyright 2016
172 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
170 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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. While empirical studies have dominated the discourse on... Read more
Introduction: Thinking Critically About Happiness 1. An Introduction to the Sociology of Happiness: Revisiting the Classics 2. Happiness, Sadness, and Contentment in the Sociology of Emotion 3. Reason, Self-Understanding and Autonomy in the Pursuit of Happiness 4. From Freud to Bauman: A Modern History of Discontentment 5. Democracy, Economics and the Public Sphere: If Money Won’t Buy Happiness, Who Should We Vote For? 6. Knowing Happiness and Contentment: The Good Life as a Hermeneutic Exercise. Conclusion.
Biography
Jordan McKenzie is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of New England in New South Wales, Australia.
