Cultures of Wellbeing
Cultures of Wellbeing
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幸福文化
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10.1057/9781137536457_6
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2016
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Jha S
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Jha S
2011年，在印度恰蒂斯加尔邦的农村，一名年轻的已婚妇女曼加利（Mangali）第一次见到她时，她选择这样总结自己与丈夫的关系：“重担落在了我的肩膀上。”这份声明引人注目，因为它用几句话挑战了关于性别、婚姻、礼仪和幸福的许多规范和假设。在一个重视男性主导和女性顺从的文化背景下，这是对女性中心地位的直接主张。在女权文学中，女性的权力是值得庆祝的，而曼加利却把她的责任视为负担，与她自己的愿望背道而驰。在社会规范建议谨慎和接受命运的地方，曼加利几乎不加掩饰地表达了对丈夫的批评，并公开表达了自己对家庭关系的不满，而且是对一个几乎陌生的人。本章借鉴了2010-2013年在恰蒂斯加尔邦进行的混合方法研究，探索亲密关系与幸福之间的联系，以及研究方法如何影响它们产生的结果。本章首先简要介绍了关于妇女福祉和亲密关系的文献，特别是在南亚的背景下。然后介绍了当前研究的方法，并描述了我们在设计一个强大的尺度来衡量亲密关系背景下幸福感的主观维度时遇到的挑战。我们将介绍一些我们产生的结果，以及我们对这些结果的回应和解释。当我们对定量数据进行反思时，我们是在解释主义范式中进行反思的，而不是试图用定量分析来推动论点。
‘The weight falls on my shoulders’ is the way a young married woman, Mangali, 2 chose to sum up her relationship with her husband on the first occasion Shreya met her, in rural Chhattisgarh (India) in 2011. The statement was striking, because in a few words it challenged a host of norms and assumptions about gender, marriage, etiquette and wellbeing. In a cultural context that values male dominance and women’s deference, it was a direct claim of female centrality. Against expectations in the empowerment literature that women’s agency is something to celebrate, Mangali posed her responsibility as burdensome and counter to her own desires. Where social norms counsel discretion and acceptance of one’s lot, Mangali voiced a barely veiled criticism of her husband and an open statement of her own discontent with relationships at home, and that to a virtual stranger. This chapter draws on mixed method research in Chhattisgarh, 2010–2013, to explore the associations between close relationships and wellbeing, and how methods of research are implicated in the results they produce. The chapter begins with a brief introduction to the literature on women’s wellbeing and close relationships, particularly in the context of South Asia. It then introduces the methodology of the present research and describes the challenges we encountered in devising a robust scale to measure subjective dimensions of wellbeing in the context of close relationships. We present some of the results we generated and our response to and interpretation of these. While we reflect on quantitative data, we do so within an interpretivist paradigm, rather than seeking to use quantitative analysis to drive the argument.