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Deconstructing Happiness

Release on 2016-03-102016-03-10 by Jordan McKenzie
Deconstructing Happiness

Author: Jordan McKenzie

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317565468

Category: Social Science

Page: 158

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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 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.
Social Science
The Psychology of Emotions
Language: en
Pages: 452

The Psychology of Emotions

Authors: Carroll E. Izard
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-10-31 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Emotions are a part of personality and essential to all human relationships, but how well do we understand what they really are? What are the processes by which they occuer and influence us? How do they affect the way we perceive and interact with the world? In The Psychology of
Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction
Language: en
Pages: 242

Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction

Authors: Christian Peter, Russell Beale
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-25 - Publisher: Springer

Affect and emotion play an important role in our everyday lives: They are present whatever we do, wherever we are, and wherever we go, without us being aware of them for much of the time. When it comes to interaction, be it with humans, technology, or humans via technology, we
Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology
Language: en
Pages: 1117

Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology

Authors: Stephen M. Stahl
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology has established itself as the preeminent source of education and information in its field. This much-expanded third edition relies on advances in neurobiology and recent clinical developments to explain the concepts underlying drug treatment of psychiatric disorders. New neurotransmitter systems; theories on schizophrenia; clinical advances in antipsychotic
Handbook of Affective Sciences
Language: en
Pages: 1199

Handbook of Affective Sciences

Authors: Richard J Davidson, Klaus R Sherer, H. Hill Goldsmith
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-21 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

One hundred stereotype maps glazed with the most exquisite human prejudice, especially collected for you by Yanko Tsvetkov, author of the viral Mapping Stereotypes project. Satire and cartography rarely come in a single package but in the Atlas of Prejudice they successfully blend in a work of art that is
Research Topics on Brain Mapping
Language: en
Pages: 246

Research Topics on Brain Mapping

Authors: Yuanzhu Liáng
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Nova Publishers

This new and significant book concentrates on brain mapping which is a set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of (biological) quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the (human or non-human) brain resulting in maps. All neuroimaging can be considered part of brain mapping. Brain mapping can be

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