The happiness agenda[electronic reso...
Burnett, Simon, (1981-)

 

  • The happiness agenda[electronic resource] :a modern obsession /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 302/.1
    書名/作者: The happiness agenda : a modern obsession // Simon Burnett.
    作者: Burnett, Simon,
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (xi, 180 p.) : : ill.
    標題: Happiness.
    標題: Happiness - United States.
    標題: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
    標題: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture.
    標題: PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology.
    標題: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
    標題: PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
    ISBN: 9780230348417 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230348416 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230289567 (hardback)
    ISBN: 0230289568 (hardback)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-178) and index.
    內容註: Introduction -- The happy adventures of capital -- A happy policy -- Happiness loves company -- Positively happy -- Happy days -- Happiness needs practice -- Happy ever after?
    摘要、提要註: The Happiness agenda is a unique, timely and relevant investigation into the Anglo-American obsession with being happy. It is presently evident across the realms of: employment policies, management consultancy advice, governmental debates and mandates, news stories, television fiction and documentaries, psychology, self-help courses, and even school classrooms. However, instead of following the pervasive trend of offering prescriptive techniques to measure and increase happiness, this book provides distinct and original explanations as to why such efforts are presently so seductive. Via historical and theoretical analysis, both the foundational 'myths' (individualism, rationalism, humanism and instrumentalism) and the advent of three key developmental ideological 'shocks' (utilitarianism, human relations and positivity) which have engineered such a cultural climate are exposed. It thus satisfies the gap in the market for readers interested in understanding the origins, current manifestation and possible future of our societal fixation on happiness, rather than simply perpetuating it.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230348417
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