This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the relationship between the quality of domestic life and the home environment, in its material and relational dimension, with individual and social happiness, in the context of current changes.
The theme of happiness and well-being is framed within two significant changes, themselves affected by the recent COVID-19 pandemic: the relationship between the individual’s quality of life and engagement within the community, and the role of new technologies in everyday life. The authors highlight the relational nature of happiness and the centrality of the home environment in its promotion. Three dimensions of psychosocial well-being in the home are analysed: the personal one, consisting of a sense of stability, intimacy and sharing; the social one, which considers the domestic environment as a place for civic education and, in times of pandemic, the site of professional activity and the physical one, consisting of spaces, services and architectural styles.
This book is ideal for readers who wish to cross disciplinary boundaries and explore the topic of domestic happiness in its different facets. The target audience is both professional researchers and advanced graduate and undergraduate students.
Author(s): Maria Teresa Russo, Antonio Argandoña, Richard Peatfield
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 263
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Presentation
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
PART I: Domestic Happiness Between the Private and Public Spheres
1. The Impact of Domestic Happiness on Public Space
2. Care, Flourishing, Happiness: The Challenge at Home
3. Home, Pandemic and Individualism
PART II: Technology, Domestication and Well-Being in the Home
4. Home Implosion: Digital Media and the Reinvention of the Private Sphere
5. Socially Shaping Homes: Household Practices, Lively Technologies and Well-Being
6. Smart Homes and Domestic Well-Being: What Has Been Lost?
PART III: Home Life, Family Relationships and New Ways of Working
7. Home Activities and Happiness: Connecting Based on Meeting Points between HRM Retention Practices and Stages of Happiness
8. Does Working from Home Lead to Increased Happiness
9. The Home as a Creative Laboratory during the COVID-2019 Lockdown
10. Positive Parenting during COVID-19: Understanding Some Antecedents in Critical Times
PART IV: Happy Dwelling? Criticalities and Opportunities of Changes in Urban Living
11. The “Kitchenless House”: Radical Changes in Home Design and Their Impact on Human Well-Being
12. The “Neighbourhood” as a Pivotal Element of the Infrastructure of a Flourishing Society
13. Architecture in between Social Changes and Happiness: Cross-Temporal Analysis of Urban Living in Twentieth Century Iraq
Index
