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标题：Recipes for Happiness: a Proposal for Analysing the Moral Orientation of Actions and Emotions
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作者：Alberto Martín Pérez ; Alberto Martín Pérez ; José Antonio Rodríguez Díaz 等
期刊名称：Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat
印刷版ISSN：0212-0585
电子版ISSN：2530-3074
出版年度：2021
卷号：2021
页码：13-28
DOI：10.28939/iam.debats-en.2021-1
语种：English
出版社：Diputació de València
摘要：This paper draws up a proposal for analysing discourses on paths to happiness. Recipes promoted by the happiness industry are studied as moral guidelines for social action: imperative messages spread through the Internet seek to guide their recipients in their quest for happiness. In a fielddominated by positive psychology, we approach happiness from a sociological perspective, which is to say as: an institutionalised social discourse; a form of social production; a socially-framed emotion. Research is based on systematic Internet observation and on quantitative and qualitative textual analysis procedures. We show how digital media in the ‘happiness’ field: (a) promotes recipes; (b) provides scientific legitimation for said recipes; (c) focuses on a generic individual as the recipient of the messages and as protagonist. A typology is proposed based on the meaning, nature and object of the actions that lead to happiness. Results show how recipes involve normative and moral orientations of actions and emotions: they indicate what to do and how to think andfeel to be happy. Happiness as a moral obligation involves most concerns shaping the agenda of contemporary societies, with a strong emphasis on individualism and on a utilitarian understanding of social relations and the social environment.
关键词：happiness; emotions; social norms; social behaviour; rules of feelings; morality.