Learning the Scripts: An exploration of the shared ways in which young Lao volunteers in Vientiane understand happiness.
Learning the Scripts: An exploration of the shared ways in which young Lao volunteers in Vientiane understand happiness.
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学习脚本：探索万象年轻老挝志愿者理解幸福的共同方式。
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10.5195/hcs.2013.135
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2013
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通讯作者：
C. McMellon
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C. McMellon
发展政策需要考虑到比经济增长更广泛的因素，这一想法越来越普遍。对幸福的关注提供了看待发展的另一种方式，但幸福的概念远非直截了当。本文认为，在政策中对幸福的任何考虑都必须建立在细致入微的定性研究的基础上，这些研究提供了对人们生活现实的丰富理解，以及他们对幸福意味着什么的多重且往往相互冲突的理解。本文借鉴了2010年至2012年在老挝万象与社区组织的年轻老挝志愿者进行的民族志研究。借鉴Wierzbicka（2004）的文化剧本概念，它确定，描述和探索了这一特定群体的年轻人认为使他们快乐的事情的三个集体剧本： 快乐的方法是做一个好老挝人· 如果我有我需要的东西，我会很高兴，有一个舒适的生活· 我很高兴当我跟随我的心尽管说明了非常不同的理解幸福，这些故事是编织从一个共同的主题，年轻人认为使他们快乐的事情。考虑这些共享脚本的可能来源。本文的讨论部分着眼于这些共同的脚本理解幸福的影响，并在公共政策中纳入幸福的概念的考虑。本文最后得出三个结论。首先，它表明了丰富的定性研究的重要性，以便就有意义地使用福祉指标作出选择。其次，在明确人们理解幸福的社会建构方式时，这种研究也可以提醒我们，有必要询问公共政策中考虑幸福的方式。第三，本文认为，这种对幸福的批判性方法在个人层面上也是有益的，以便个人对自己的幸福信念提出挑战并做出选择。
The idea that development policies need to take account of factors broader than economic growth is increasingly commonplace. A focus upon happiness provides an alternative way of looking at development, but the concept of happiness is far from straightforward. This paper argues that any consideration of happiness in policy must be grounded in nuanced qualitative research that provides a rich understanding of the realities of people's lives and their multiple and often conflicting understandings of what happiness means. This paper draws on ethnographic research with young Lao volunteers with community-based organisations in Vientiane, Laos, that took place between 2010 and 2012. Drawing on Wierzbicka's (2004) concept of cultural scripts, it identifies, describes and explores three collective scripts that this specific group of young people believe about the things that make them happy: • The way to be happy is to be a good Lao person • I will be happy if I have the things that I need to be comfortable and have an easy life • I am happy when I follow my heart Despite illustrating very different understandings of happiness, these stories are woven from a common set of themes about the things that young people think make them happy. Consideration is given to the possible origins of these shared scripts. The discussion section of the paper looks at the implications of these shared scripts for understanding happiness and for the inclusion of a consideration of the concept of happiness in public policy. The paper ends with three conclusions. Firstly it suggests the importance of rich qualitative research in order to make choices about the meaningful use of well-being indicators. Secondly, in making explicit the socially constructed ways that people understand happiness, such research can also remind us of the need to interrogate the ways that happiness is considered in public policy. Thirdly, the paper suggests that such a critical approach to happiness could also be beneficial at the personal level in order for individuals to challenge and make choices about their own beliefs about happiness.
为什么现在是老挝和柬埔寨？
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发表时间：
2008
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Sailing Master Vol. 8
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作者：
阿部周造;Md.Humayun Kabir Chowdhury;UEDA Yoshiaki.
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UEDA Yoshiaki.