Wellbeing : challenging the Anglo-Saxon hegemony /

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Imprint:	Paris : Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, [2017]. © 2017
Description:	189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	French
Subject:	Well-being -- Great Britain. Well-being -- United States. Happiness -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. Happiness -- Social aspects -- United States. Happiness -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain. Happiness -- Economic aspects -- United States. Social ethics -- Great Britain. Social ethics -- United States. Happiness -- Economic aspects. Happiness -- Social aspects. Social ethics. Well-being. Great Britain. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11447577

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Other authors / contributors:	Coron, Catherine. Dalingwater, Louise.
ISBN:	9782878547115 287854711X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"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.

Table of 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.

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