SOC SCI H1E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Positive Psychology, The Takeaway, Egalitarianism
17 May 2019
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Different connections between different parts of well-being. Since finishing the philosophers, we"ve done two things: created a web of wellness using physiological factors, looked at how money & culture influence happiness. Easterlin: within society, richest tend to be happiness but across societies, there are no significant happiness differences. Veenhoven: various happiness is relative" these have been overstated -> less clearly relative. Schyns: wealth nations are happier (linearly), culture (meaning freedom) also correlates with happiness but only in wealthier nations. : look at richer data & find cultural differences where egalitarianism mattered most to well-being/happiness. Kitayama et al: different cultures have different models of happiness & wellness (implying cross cultural comparisons based on surveys may miss important phenomena) In wealthy societies, the top & bottom are closer in happiness, wealthy nations are happier, etc. Hallmark of science is replicability but not seeing that here -> progression of theories that contradict each other.
