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Happiness and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living: An Anthropological Approach

In: Happiness and Public Policy

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  • Gordon Mathews

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The study of happiness, as presented in most chapters of this book is statistical. The researcher asks respondents how happy they are, or how satisfied with their lives they are, and compiles their answers statistically, to offer a universal measure that can be used to compare people of different societies, as well as different social classes, genders, and ages, as to happiness. These statistical findings have, no doubt, a broad accuracy. At a subtler level, however, their accuracy is arguable.

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  • Gordon Mathews, 2006. "Happiness and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living: An Anthropological Approach," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Yew-Kwang Ng & Lok Sang Ho (ed.), Happiness and Public Policy, chapter 7, pages 147-168, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28802-7_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230288027_7
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    1. Michiko Kumano, 2018. "On the Concept of Well-Being in Japan: Feeling Shiawase as Hedonic Well-Being and Feeling Ikigai as Eudaimonic Well-Being," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 13(2), pages 419-433, June.

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