Happiness Across Cultures: Views of Happiness and Quality of Life in Non-Western CulturesHelaine Selin, Gareth Davey Springer Science & Business Media, 29. 2. 2012 - Počet stran: 504 There seems to have been a view that different cultures experience happiness differently. The West is considered materialistic, and happiness comes from achievement and acquisition. The East is said to be more people-oriented, where happiness is a result of deep personal interactions. Thus, poor people can be happier in the East than the West, because they are not so concerned with possession and more with society. It is certainly true that people experience happiness differently. Some people are resilient, and can put difficult times behind them easily; others cling to sorrow and hard times. Some are philosophically inclined to accept their situation—the glass is half full not half empty. Whether this is a matter of culture or personality is hard to gauge; most likely it is a combination of both. This book will explore notions of happiness in different non-Western cultures. Some of the essays will do some comparison with the East, but I have tried to keep the essays culture-specific when possible. There are also some cross-cultural essays and some philosophical and scientific studies that are not related to one culture only. There are some obvious problems. Most obvious is the fact that no political state has one culture. In a country the size of China, almost any explanation of one group might not apply to another. I have tried to include a few chapters on China to correct for this. This is even the case in a country as small as Bhutan; there is a mixture of Buddhist and Hindu people in the country, and there ideas of what makes one happy could be quite different. In South America, there is more likely a connection between mountain dwellers in different nations and rainforest dwellers than with, say, all Peruvians. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Happiness in India | 13 |
Happiness on the Tibetan Plateau | 27 |
Happiness and Life Satisfaction in Malaysia | 42 |
Happiness and Quality of Life in the Peoples Republic of China | 57 |
The Case of Hong Kong | 74 |
Quality of Work Life in Macau | 95 |
Satisfaction and Societal Quality in Kazakhstan | 107 |
The Importance of Human Relations | 241 |
Happy Villages and Unhappy Slums? Understanding Happiness Determinants in Peru | 252 |
Life Satisfaction in Malawi | 271 |
A SocioCultural Analysis | 293 |
Global Cultural and Phenomenological Perspectives | 311 |
An Economic View of Happiness in South Africa | 329 |
Concepts of Wellbeing Among Organic Farmers and Plantation Workers in Madagascar | 345 |
Rwanda | 360 |
A Happy State of Mind? | 121 |
Happiness in Thailand | 137 |
Research with Organic Farmers in Cambodia | 149 |
A Case Study in Vietnam | 166 |
Constructions of Happiness and Satisfaction in the Kingdom of Tonga | 181 |
What It Means To Be Well and To Enjoy Life in CentralWestern New South Wales Australia | 195 |
Folk Explanations of Happiness in a HunterHorticulturalist Society in the Bolivian Amazon | 208 |
Happiness in Brazil | 227 |
Happiness in Navajos Diné Ba Hózhó | 377 |
Wellbeing Among Inuit in Arctic Canada | 387 |
Climate Cash and Culturally Embedded Happiness | 399 |
A Case Study of Adulthood in an Oriya Hindu Temple Town | 417 |
A CrossCultural Perspective | 435 |
Does Happiness Differ Across Cultures? | 451 |
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