Understanding Well-Being Data : : Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research.

• Superior document: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research Series
• Author: Oman, Susan.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Preface: A Personal Note on Why I Wrote the Book
• References
• Acknowledgements
• Praise for Understanding Well-being Data
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Boxes
• Chapter 1: Introducing Well-being Data
• 1.1 Introduction to Understanding Well-being Data
• Subjective and Objective Data
• 1.2 Who Is This Book for?
• 1.3 What Is This Book Trying to Do?
• 1.4 Why Well-being Data?
• 1.5 How Are Data Cultural?
• 1.6 How Should I Use This Book?
• 1.7 Why Is the Book Written in This Order?
• The First Half
• Half Time
• The Second Half
• References
• Chapter 2: Knowing Well-being: A History of Data
• 2.1 What Is Well-being?
• Traditions of Well-being Thought
• Hedonia: Most Simply Understood as Pleasure or Positive Feeling
• Eudaimonia: Most Often Understood as Purpose or Flourishing
• Common Definitions Used with Well-being Data
• Objective Well-being
• Subjective Well-being
• 2.2 Measuring Well-being to Improve Human Welfare: A Brief History
• 2.3 Audit Culture, Value and Public Management
• Social Policy
• So, What Is Value?
• Economics, Value and Human Behaviours
• What Is Social Value?
• 2.4 Conclusion: Well-being as a Tool of Policy
• References
• Chapter 3: Looking at Well-being Data in Context
• 3.1 Well-being Measurement (Other Data Are Available)
• 3.2 Accounts of Well-being
• Objective Lists
• Preference Satisfaction
• Mental States (or Subjective Well-being)
• 3.3 Everyday Well-being Data: Asking People Questions About Their Lives
• Questionnaire Data
• Interview Data
• Ethnographic Data
• Secondary Qualitative Data
• 3.4 Objective Well-being Data and Measures
• 3.5 The OECD as a Case Study of What Lies Behind Objective Well-being Data
• 3.6 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 4: Discovering 'the New Science of Happiness' and Subjective Well-being.
• 4.1 Happiness Economics
• The Greatest Happiness? And Other Principles
• 4.2 Positive Psychology
• 4.3 Establishing a New Science of Happiness
• 4.4 What Is Subjective Well-being?
• How Is This Well-being Measure Subjective?
• What Well-being Means to People Is Subjective
• Definitions of Subjective Well-being
• 4.5 Subjective Well-being Measures for Decision-Making
• Evaluation Measures
• Experience Measures
• 'Eudaimonic' Measures
• Psychological Well-being
• Worthwhileness and Overall Evaluation
• How These Measures Can Be Applied
• 4.6 Case Study: Subjective Well-being, by the Office for National Statistics' Design
• 4.7 Summarising What Measuring Subjective Well-being Does
• 4.8 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 5: Getting a Sense of Big Data and Well-being
• 5.1 What Even Is 'Big Data'?
• 5.2 Big Data: A New Way to Understand Well-being?
• Why We Need to Ask Critical Questions of Data in the Context of Well-being
• Value
• 5.3 Are Big Data Even Actually New?
• The Darker Side of Historical Well-being Data and Commercial Gain
• 5.4 A Case Study on the Promise of Commercial Big Data
• Linking Big Datasets: For Well-being?
• 5.5 Social Media Data: A Game Changer?
• Social Media Data Mining in Social and Cultural Sectors
• Understanding Where People Are and How They Feel Using Twitter Data
• 5.6 Fit for Purpose? Health and Well-being Tracking and Apps
• 5.7 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 6: Well-being, Values, Culture and Society
• 6.1 The Relationship Between Culture and Well-being
• Well-being and Culture: Reviewing the Long Theoretical Lineage
• 6.2 Cultural Policy as Social Policy
• Cultural Policy: Operationalising the Question 'What Is Culture?'
• Cultural Policy: Institutions for Well-being
• Cultural Policy: Whose Culture Is Good Culture for Well-being?.
• Cultural Value and the Role of Well-being Data
• Well-being Measures: Arguing a Right to Culture?
• 6.3 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 7: Evidencing Culture for Policy
• 7.1 Well-being as Evidence for Social Policy
• Data and Evidence in Cultural Policy
• 7.2 Policy Spending on Culture as Good for Society
• Well-being Data and Investment in Culture
• Policy Decisions and Investments Using Well-being Data
• 7.3 Well-being Data and Cultural Practice
• Being an Artist and Well-being
• Two Reports on the Relationship Between Being an Artist or Working in a Creative Occupation and Well-being
• 7.4 Well-being Data and 'Cultural Access'
• 7.5 Conclusion: Using Well-being Data to Understand Policy Questions
• References
• Chapter 8: Talking Different Languages of Value
• 8.1 Returning to the Culture- Well-being Relationship
• 8.2 Talking Different Languages of Value
• 8.3 Context: The Happy Museum and Data
• Taking Part Survey and the Data on Culture
• The Well-being Data Available in the Taking Part Survey
• 8.4 Museums and Happiness and Other Relationships
• 8.5 Following the Findings
• 8.6 How Was the Value of the Relationship Between Museums and Happiness Calculated?
• Some Reasons Why Findings May Differ
• 8.7 Conclusion: The Value of Valuation
• References
• Chapter 9: Understanding
• 9.1 Understanding, Well-being and Data
• 9.2 Meanings of Understanding
• The Case for Understanding in Data
• 9.3 Data Uses as Barriers to Understanding
• 9.4 Following the Data: How We Have Come to Understand Well-being Data in This Book
• References
• Index.