From Public Health to Wellbeing

Walker, Paul; John, Marie

doi:10.1007/978-0-230-35736-5

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“…As a result, economic and material identities and practices became entwined with labour mobility and employees' ability to re-locate for work and develop specialised technical skills and ability to compete within the labour market, itself, a modern commodity (Scott, 2006;Wagner, 2012). Individual wellbeing, if articulated at all, was narrowly articulated and commodified through, for example, ability to requisition enhanced pay and material conditions through acquisition of higher levels of skills and technical knowledge and capacities.…”

Section: Traditional Modern Capitalism and Economismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Emergence of Wellbeing in Late Modern Capitalism: Theory, Research and Policy Responses

Placa¹,

Knight²

2017

IJSSS

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This article outlines a historical and theoretical framework that traces the historical and discursive emergence of the concept of wellbeing as a consequence of the decline of traditional capitalism and modernity and the subsequent shift to a late modern capitalist economy. On the structural level, this shift precipitates a new type of consumption that not only characterises the productive and physical capacity of the economy and products, but cascades into the social construction of multiple discursive, symbolic and cultural products, images, and forms of information and meanings, from wellbeing emerges. This process has consequences for individuals in late modernity as they navigate through a world where life-worlds, security and relationships are disrupted and require new forms of revising and responding to change. Consequently, wellbeing further establishes a means of responding and adapting to, for instance, changing lives, circumstances, security, and happiness. The emergence of wellbeing as a significant component of social policy discourses has also precipitated debate around the types of research and policy responses relevant to the study of wellbeing. As a result, the article also prescribes an epistemology founded upon a 'cultural' and 'relational' approach that can effectively underpin research and social policies relevant to wellbeing in late modern capitalism.

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Section: Traditional Modern Capitalism and Economismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Emergence of Wellbeing in Late Modern Capitalism: Theory, Research and Policy Responses

Placa¹,

Knight²

2017

IJSSS

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Introduction

Wallace

2018

Wellbeing and Devolution

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This chapter reviews the main philosophical debates pertaining to wellbeing, drawing a key distinction between personal wellbeing (living well) and societal wellbeing (living well together). The author explores how these translate into measures of social progress and the social indicators movement that has developed since the 1980s to include broader measures of progress than take into account inequalities and reflect the importance of sustainable development. She charts a parallel development of public performance measurement which has, in a similar timeframe, moved away from targets and indicators towards a deeper understanding of outcomes for citizens. Wellbeing frameworks, Wallace argues, must be seen as attempts by devolved legislatures to provide a broad measure of social progress and to hold themselves accountable for progress towards agreed social outcomes.

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