Sociology of Happiness Japanese Perspectives

Explores issues of happiness from a wide variety of sociological perspectives. It includes: a meta-analysis of suffering; an axiomatic approach to constructing a disadvantage index; a proposal for a new qualitative methodology for social science research; a Nietzschean analysis of happiness; a proposal to codify linguistic rights drawing on notions of the universal right to pursue well-being; an analysis of the role of folklore in articulating a societys implicit understandings of happiness and suffering; a critical exploration of the impact of social surveillance on happiness; and a clinical sociological approach to happiness and unhappiness.Kosaka, Kenji is the author of 'Sociology of Happiness Japanese Perspectives' with ISBN 9781876843281 and ISBN 1876843284.