39 Achieving high subjective well-being THREE Achieving high subjective well-being A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), Act I) There is currently a revitalised interest in the study of happiness and positive mood; arguably this is a period when the ‘concept of Gross National Happiness is coming of age’ (Stehlik, 1999, p 52). Academics, professionals and politicians are all working towards a new generation of measurements of social progress that value quality of life
329 14 Subjective Europeanisation DEFINITION Subjective Europeanisation refers to Europe’s growing role in the cognitive, affective and normative perceptions and orientations of people, and the weakening of the fixation on the nation-state. Europe appears as an additional frame of reference, superimposed on the level of the nation-state but without necessarily replacing it. Research into social stratification and societal change deals not only with objective living conditions and the unequal distribution of jobs and resources but also with the attitudes
Policy and Politics, Vol. 7 No.3 (1979),299-309 Subjective Social Indicators and Urban Social Policy: A Review Paul L. Knox 299 Social indicators, because they apparently manage to combine the somewhat conflicting attributes of relevance, objectivity and convenience, have slotted comfortably into the paradigm of contemporary socio-economic planning in Europe, Australia and North America. They have, indeed, become one of the central descriptive tools of normative policy analysis, and their use is now widespread at all levels of administration and control. Both the
5 ar tic le © The Policy Press • 2013 • ISSN 1759-8273 Key words subjective wellbeing • happiness • objective wellbeing • capabilities approach • poverty Journal of Poverty and Social Justice • vol 21 • no 1 • 2013 • 5-17 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/175982713X664029 Subjective wellbeing: a primer for poverty analysts Sridhar Venkatapuram The article reviews the current theory and measurement of subjective wellbeing (SWB). The first two sections discuss growing efforts in many countries to measure and monitor national wellbeing, particularly in the United
Policy and Politics, Vol. 7 No.2 (1979), 145-163 Subjectivity and Organisational Politics in Policy Analysis Sue Jones, Colin Eden and David Sims 145 Introduction It is widely recognised that the formulation and implementation of policy is a subjective and 'political' process undertaken by human beings who have idiosyncratic beliefs and values, and whose relationships often involve subtle and complicated political manoeuvrings. Yet these aspects of policy and policy-making still represent elusive and problematic areas for the professional policy analyst - 'dirty
77 Advancing the study of subjective well-being FoUR Advancing the study of subjective well-being1 If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. ( John A. Simone, Sr) Times change. Life in Britain in the 1980s is not the same as that experienced in the 1990s, nor indeed in the new millennium. Politics shift, economies unwind, cultures reform. Well-being today may not be what it was half a century ago – the mix of factors affecting well-being is likely to vary over time. This chapter is about
123 FIVE Subjective well-being and mental health Gwyther Rees and Gill Main Key statistics • Children in the UK fare poorly (ranked between 11th and 14th in a sample of 15 countries) in international comparisons of children’s overall subjective well-being. • Children’s happiness with their material living standards and friends are relatively high in the UK; their happiness with their appearance is very low. • Around 1 in 10 children aged 5-16 had a clinically diagnosed mental disorder in 2004. • Conduct disorders (5.8%) and emotional disorders (3.7%) are
PART I Conceptualizations, Subjectivities and Etymologies
157 9 Pathways to Urban Residency and Subjective Well-Being in Beijing Juan Chen and Shenghua Xie Introduction Urbanization is a risk factor for subjective well-being, and the situation in China is evidence of this general rule (Harpham, 1994; Marsella, 1998; Vlahov and Galea, 2002; Gong et al., 2012). Over the last three decades, China has witnessed the largest peacetime human migration in history and a simultaneous acceleration of urban expansion. In 1978, 17.92% of the population lived in urban areas; by 2016, the proportion had risen to 57
