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Author:   Ilona Suojanen ,  Wolfram Manzenreiter ,  Barbara Holthus ,  Sarah Coulthard
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Bristol University Press
ISBN:  

9781529206128

ISBN 10:   152920612
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   25 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Developing Qualitative Research into Happiness and Wellbeing - Mark Cieslik, Northumbria University Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Theories, Debates and Issues Chapter 2. Living Well Together: On Happiness, Social Goods and Genuinely Progressive Sociology - Neil Thin Chapter 3. Happiness as an Affective Practice: Self, Suffering and Biography - Nicholas Hill Chapter 4. Personal Happiness, Social Unhappiness: Understanding the Tomplexity of Individual Happiness Accounts - David Tross Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Communities, Biographies and Identities Chapter 5. Developing a Biographical Approach to Happiness and Wellbeing - Mark Cieslik Chapter 6. Considering the Body in Happiness Research - Richard Gibbons Chapter 7. How can Cultural Heritage Contribute to Community Development and Wellbeing - Claire Wallace and David Beel Chapter 8. On Post-Traumatic Growth and ‘Choosing’ to be Happy: Stories of Positive Change from African Refugees and Asylum Seekers -Brianne Wenning Chapter 9. Using Social Wellbeing to Inform Regeneration Strategies in a Former Colliery Town in Northern England - Kelly Johnson and Sarah Coulthard Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Methodological Innovations Chapter 10. A Board Game Approach to Studying the Multi-dimensionality of Life Satisfaction - Barbara Holthus and Wolfram Manzenreiter Chapter 11. Show Me What Makes you Happy at Work’? Visualising Happiness in the Workplace - Ilona Suojanen

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This collection showcases some of the latest qualitative research highlighting the value of sociological understandings of what it means to live well and be happy. Mary Holmes, University of Edinburgh A must read for social scientists willing to recognise that living well, in all its myriad forms, is as important a measure of who we are as those structures that allegedly determine us. Steven Miles, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Mark Cieslik is a sociologist in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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