Jugureanu, A, Hughes, J and Hughes, K orcid.org/0000-0002-5711-0353 (2014) Towards a Developmental Understanding of Happiness. Sociological Research Online, 19 (2). ARTN 2. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1360-7804
Abstract
In this paper we centrally explore the ‘sociogenesis’ of the concept of happiness: the social processes by which it came to be a term appropriated by different practitioner communities - from policy makers to academics, from a burgeoning self-help industry to advocates of positive psychology. Our core focus is upon shifting historical understandings of the term and how these relate to more general social processes. Our aim in this paper is not to present a definitive history of happiness, but rather something of the overall direction of changes in dominant approaches to, and understandings of, happiness particularly within what we might broadly term ‘the human sciences’. Ultimately, we offer a series of tentative reflections upon the implications of a developmental approach to happiness for sociological analyses of this increasingly popular area of concern.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Sociological Research Online. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Happiness; Sociogenesis; Sociology of Happiness; Positivity; History of Happiness; Selfhood |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jan 2019 16:21 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:35 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage |
Identification Number: | 10.5153/sro.3240 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138249 |