Understanding Well-Being Data : : Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research.
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Superior document: | New Directions in Cultural Policy Research Series |
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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
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (405 pages) |
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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.