Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences of a Desynchronized High–Speed Society

Rosa, Hartmut

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“…Some participants were wary of setting "unrealistic" expectations for happiness and some were willing to put happiness "on hold" while accomplishing other things. The inability to consistently make happiness a priority may be partly due to the "acceleration of time" (Rosa, 2003) as "life becomes layered with multiple tasks, responsibilities, and options" (Andres & Wyn, 2010, p. 191). In line with Sen (1999) and Kahneman (2011), people might have goals that transcend their current wellbeing and happiness, but which might deliver future happiness.…”

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Elucidating the constructs happiness and wellbeing: A mixed-methods approach

Jongbloed¹,

Andres²

2015

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Abstract:In this study we examine the constructs "happiness" and "wellbeing" in a sample of Canadian women and men in mid-adulthood. Through a sequential mixed-methods approach, we utilize Sen and Nussbaum's conceptualizations of capabilities to inform the themes generated from semi-structured interviews. We find that participants understand happiness and wellbeing as two distinct constructs that are illuminated in the metaphors happiness as balance and the gears of wellbeing. Second, we corroborate these constructs through a principal component analysis of questionnaire data. We conclude that happiness and wellbeing are not static entities, but rather iterative processes that are constantly in flux and determined by the fulfillment of the often contradictory needs for (1) goal-achievement and an acceptance of reality, and (2) freedom along with meaning-making, which often involves creating restraints in one's life. These findings have important implications for those using happiness and wellbeing as policy outcome measures.

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Section: Figure 2 Gears Of Wellbeingmentioning

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Elucidating the constructs happiness and wellbeing: A mixed-methods approach

Jongbloed¹,

Andres²

2015

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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“…If representative democracy struggles to maintain its rhythms, in this view it is because increasingly it is subject to the uncertainty and high-speed change associated with other social systems, notably contemporary financial capitalism (Scheuerman 2004;Rosa 2003Rosa , 2013Wolin 1997 Only occasionally has an election coincided with a major step in the crisis response such that decision-making could be meaningfully contested. The usual rhythms of democratic politics have thus been relevant to the course of events only sporadically -and indeed sometimes appear deliberately marginalized.…”

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Politicizing Europe: The Challenge of Executive Discretion

White

2014

SSRN Journal

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Political decision-making in the Euro-crisis has relied heavily on executive discretion, exercised at speed and rationalised with reference to the pressing demands of emergency. This paper explores the challenges raised for political opposition, notably challenges of a temporal kind. With its deviations from policy and procedural norms, discretionary politics tends towards a politics without rhythm, leading to major asymmetries between decisionmakers and voices of opposition. These centre on issues of timing and the ability to identify authorship and content of decisions. Such asymmetries arguably correspond to an underlying one between the temporality of political decision-making and of contemporary finance capitalism, with agents of the former increasingly inclined to pursue 'fast policy' as a means to keep pace. A democratic response is likely to involve strengthening and synchronising the rhythms of parliamentary politics, as well as being receptive to forms of opposition less reliant on the rhythms that discretion subverts.

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“…El presentismo es, evidentemente, "el accidente de los accidentes, el accidente del tiempo" (Virilio 1999 b: 81); en definitiva, la tierra del mal 8 . La sociología de la aceleración de Harmut Rosa (2003) es extraña a esta inflación de imágenes, frase breves y rotundas aseveraciones sobre el final de los tiempos que dominan la prosa acelerada de Virilio 9 . No estamos ante la descripción de un descenso a los infiernos, aunque al final la patología temporal del presentismo haga acto de presencia.…”

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“…Por lo tanto, el orden de lo efímero, lo fugaz o lo cambiante debe ser considerado en sus complejas relaciones con lo duradero, lo perenne o lo permanente. Si, como han destacado distintos analistas, las aceleraciones sociales comportan desaceleraciones (Rosa 2003), la inquietud quietudes (Bissell & Fuller 2009), las movilidades inmovilidades (Urry 2007), la amnesia hipermnesia (Connerton 2009), la destemporalización retemporalización (Leccardi 2009) y los contactos instantáneos, contratos y compromisos estables (Bressand & Distler 2003), entonces no parece sensato limitar el análisis y menos el diagnóstico final a uno de esos aspectos, por muy llamativo que sea, a costa de ocultar su compleja relación con los que lo niegan o atemperan. En consecuencia, el análisis que desvela la problematicidad del tiempo ha de abstenerse de identificarla sin más con su desaparición.…”

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Atemporalización y presentificación del mundo social en la sociología contemporánea

Torre¹

2014

Política Soc.

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ResumenLa sociología contemporánea ha reconocido el papel relevante del tiempo en el análisis del mundo desbocado en que vivimos. Este interés creciente resulta, con todo, paradójico ya que el reconocimiento de la centralidad sociológica del tiempo va de la mano de la denuncia de su desaparición o, al menos, de su radical desestructuración y disfuncionalidad. Resulta así que ese tiempo reivindicado se convierte en un tiempo desaparecido. Este trabajo pretende reconstruir este diagnóstico paradójico en sus tres variantes fundamentales que se denominan de la atemporalización, la presentificación y la espacialización. Una vez analizadas en sus distintas manifestaciones, se procede a su crítica y al esbozo de una alternativa que no caiga en los errores detectados. Palabras clave Sociología del tiempo, atemporalidad, presentismo, espacialización, aceleración Atemporality and presentism of the social world in contemporary sociology Abstract Contemporary sociology has recognized the important role of time in the analysis of the runaway world we live in. This growing interest is, however, ironic because the recognition of the sociological centrality of time goes with the denunciation of its disappearance or at least its radical disorganization and disfunctionality. As a consequence claimed time turns into missing time. This paper seeks to rebuild this paradoxical diagnosis in its three core variants: atemporality, presentism and spacelization. After analyzing its various sociological manifestations, these are subject to criticism and an alternative that does not fall into the detected errors is outlined.

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Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences of a Desynchronized High–Speed Society

Cited by 529 publications

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Elucidating the constructs happiness and wellbeing: A mixed-methods approach

Elucidating the constructs happiness and wellbeing: A mixed-methods approach

Politicizing Europe: The Challenge of Executive Discretion

Atemporalización y presentificación del mundo social en la sociología contemporánea

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