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This book is a collection of chapters on happiness and well-being. It includes contributions from scientists from all over the world, who present different, multifaceted, dialectically open perspectives and sensitivities regarding happiness. The authors discuss happiness and well-being from biological, biopsychosocial, anthropological, and philosophical points of view.

Happiness.

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This volume sets the start for the Quaderni "Cesare Alfieri", commissioned by the Council of the School of Political Sciences of the University of Florence as a scientific and editorial project aimed at involving all the cultural components animating the School. This work is an attempt to create an occasion of dialogue, research to deepen the acquired knowledge and investigate complex social issues from different points of view. For this first Quaderno - or notebook - the Scientific Committee has decided to focus on the concept of "well-being", to observe it from different perspectives and to relate it to the notion of happiness. The survey aims to offer food for thought, some lines for a path, different views on a theme that constitutes one of the great knots that our democracies must face: the well-being to be conquered, especially in the twentieth century, a real challenge for the beginning of a new Millennium.

Welfare state. --- Happiness. --- Wealth.

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Happiness --- Social capital (Sociology) --- Social networks --- Trust

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There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature within the humanities and social sciences is increasingly concerned to chart not only the underlying trends in recorded levels of happiness, but to consider what factors, if any, contribute to positive and sustainable experiences of well-being and quality of life. Increasingly, such research is focusing on the importance of values and beliefs in human satisfaction or quality of life; but the specific contribution of religion to these trends is relatively under-examined. This unique collection of essays seeks to rectify that omission, by identifying the nature and role of the religious contribution to wellbeing. A unique collection of nineteen leading scholars from the field of economics, psychology, public theology and social policy have been brought together in this volume to explore the religious contribution to the debate about happiness and well-being. These essays explore the religious dimensions to a number of key features of well-being, including marriage, crime and rehabilitation, work, inequality, mental health, environment, participation, institutional theory, business and trade. They engage particularly closely with current trends in economics in identifying alternative models of economic growth which focus on its qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions. This unique volume brings to public notice the nature and role of religion's contribution to wellbeing, including new ways of measurement and evaluation. As such, it represents a valuable and unprecedented resource for the development of a broad-based religious contribution to the field. It will be of particular relevance for those who are concerned about the continuing debate about personal and societal well-being, as well as those who are interested in the continuing significance of religion for the future of public policy.

Happiness --- Economics --- Well-being --- Religious aspects.

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Le bonheur est-il un phénomène unique ou l'enchaînement d’humeurs contrastées ? Un état de tranquillité et de sérénité ou le fait d’une vie vécue intensément ? Faut-il être averti de son bonheur pour le vivre ? Comment régler le dilemme entre affects et cognition ? Le bonheur est, pour le moins, un concept dont la principale caractéristique est de ne pas donner prise à une interprétation unique. Or, si le malheur a été abondamment étudié par les sciences humaines et sociales, le bonheur jusqu’ici ne semble pas avoir été un objet bon à penser par et pour l’anthropologie, au contraire de la psychologie ou de l’économie. Initié afin de réduire cet écart, cet ouvrage collectif s’attache à montrer de quelles façons, au-delà du constat de la variabilité culturelle et individuelle de ses manifestations, le bonheur peut être saisi dans ses formes élémentaires. Les auteurs rassemblés dans Ethnologie des gens heureux proposent ainsi des pistes de réflexion à la fois méthodologiques et théoriques qui, tout en se réclamant d’orientations de recherche personnelles, offrent au lecteur un ensemble de matériaux ethnographiques attachés à rendre plus compréhensible ce qui fait le bonheur des êtres humains.

Happiness --- Bonheur --- Research --- Social aspects --- Recherche --- Aspect social --- Psychology --- Anthropology --- bonheur --- philosophie --- anthropologie --- sociologie --- concept