Being Well Together: Individual Subjective and Community Wellbeing
Being Well Together: Individual Subjective and Community Wellbeing
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DOI：
10.1007/s10902-019-00146-2
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发表时间：
2020-06-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Curtis, Sarah
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作者：
Atkinson, Sarah;Bagnall, Anne-Marie;Curtis, Sarah
本文探讨了社区幸福感是，并可能是，通过映射当前的实践，梳理出一个占主导地位的方法和标记被忽视的问题的假设与个人的主观幸福感。社区的概念被广泛理解为不仅仅是各部分的总和。捕捉当地生活的主观方面，不仅是个人的，而且反映了人们的感受和相处方式，这是一项具有挑战性的工作。大多数现有的评估社区幸福感的框架都是基于自我作为一个自主的，理性的和独立的行为或感觉的个人的理论，主要兴趣是如何对个人的主观幸福感的生活社区方面的影响。这种占主导地位的方法一贯忽视空间和社会不平等、多重环境和规模以及时间选择和遗产，所有这些都是社区福祉的重要政治层面。自我的社会理论作为关系把关系作为主观性之前，因此提供了方法来概念化社区福祉的条款是很好的在一起。关系方法还可以为解决不平等、规模和时间之间复杂的相互作用提供途径。然而，这种方法并不容易转化为量化措施或简单的政策干预。对社区福祉采取的方法不是一个技术问题，而是一个政治选择。
This paper explores the ways in which community wellbeing is, and could be, related to individual subjective wellbeing by mapping current practice, teasing out the assumptions underlying a dominant approach and flagging neglected issues. The notion of community is widely understood as about something more than the sum of the parts. Capturing subjective aspects of local life that are not simply individual but reflect the ways in which people feel and are well together is a challenging undertaking. Most existing frameworks for assessing community wellbeing are premised on a theory of the self as an autonomous, rational and independently acting or feeling individual, and the primary interest is on how community aspects of life impact on individual subjective wellbeing. This dominant approach consistently neglects spatial and social inequalities, multiple settings and scales and temporal choices and legacies, all of which constitute important political dimensions to community wellbeing. Social theories of the self as relational put relations as prior to subjectivity and as such afford ways to conceptualise community wellbeing in terms of being well together. A relational approach can also offer routes to tackling the complex interactions of inequality, scale and time. Such an approach is not, however, easily translated into quantitative measures or simple policy interventions. The approach taken to community wellbeing is not a technological issue but a political choice.