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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oman, Susan.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:New Directions in Cultural Policy Research Series
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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.

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