SA 201W Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Positive Psychology, Life Satisfaction, Heterosexuality

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 201W
• Professor: Jie Yang

Document Summary

Feminist, black, and queer scholars have shown in diff ways how happiness is used to justify oppression. Would you believe it, bangladesh is the happiest nation in the world! States, on the other hand, is a sad story: it ranks only 46th in the world happiness. By analyzing the well-being deficit in anthro, we can learn more about the history and culture of our discipline. Rapport and overing"s collection of sixty essays on key concepts in anthropology includes none on well-being, happiness, human flourishing, emotion, or quality of life. Understanding how ppl feel about themselves, relationships, institutions, processes, events, and non-human environment. How ppl make meaning in their lives by evaluating the quality of their own lives and those of other pepople. The desire to feel good but also have a life that is good and judged well by other ppl thru social principles. To be judged well by supernatural beings and to live well in an afterlife.