TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thin,Neil
TI  - Social happiness: theory into policy and practice 
SN  - 9781847429193 :
U1  - 361.61 21st
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Bristol
PB  - Policy Press
KW  - Happiness
KW  - SOCIAL  POLICY
N1  - State book Grant 2016-2017; Includes index and bibliographical references; Part one: Happiness in policy discourse and research; Introduction: prosperity debates and the happiness lens; What really matters: concepts, evaluations and objections; Effects of happiness (and unhappiness); Thinking ourselves happy: on the policy relevance of both subjectivity and objectivity; Who makes happiness happen? On positive deviance, emotion work, and psychosocial contagion; Governance and responsibility: towards the eudaimonic state?; Assessing happiness: measurement and beyond; Correlations and causal theories; Part Two: Social happiness in policy and practice; Love: fighting philophobia around the world; The shape of good hope: Cultivating reasonable aspirations; Positive parenting and cheerful childlessness; Schooling for joy; New gender agendas: feel-good feminism for fun and fulfilment; Working for happiness, happily working, and work-life harmony; Shopping for happiness: corporate happwash and consumption ethics; Geronto-eudaimonics: late-life thriving for all; Conclusions: review and prospects
ER  -