Happiness: Classic Theory in the Light of Current Research

Glatzer, Wolfgang

doi:10.1023/a:1011550727571

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“…Quality of care is affected customers imagery that has an effect on the process of the expected quality of perception of quality (Prabaharan et al, 2008). Happiness is directly related to satisfaction, and happiness as a whole is strongly associated with satisfaction in the travel sector (Glatzer, 2000). The majority of tourists have experience with purpose, and their perception is influenced by a comparison between the facilities, attractions, and service standards (Law, 1995).…”

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Effects of Service Quality, Customer Trust and Corporate Image on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty: An Assessment of Travel Agencies Customer in South Sumatra Indonesia

Setiawan¹,

Sayuti²

2017

IOSR JBM

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Effects of Service Quality, Customer Trust and Corporate Image on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty: An Assessment of Travel Agencies Customer in South Sumatra Indonesia

Setiawan¹,

Sayuti²

2017

IOSR JBM

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“…Pessimistic sociology and romantic anthropology are therefore ill-prepared for the current global tide of enthusiastic self-reports from modernizing societies: ‘Durkheim thought that de-modernization would restore happiness. Yet the data rather suggest that people are happier in modern society’ (Glatzer 2000:504). Acknowledgement of social progress, let alone systematic analysis of it, has not been prominent in sociology since the 19 th century (Best 2001; Thin 2002).…”

Section: Positive Sociology and Social Happinessmentioning

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Positive Sociology and Appreciative Empathy: History and Prospects

Thin

2014

Sociological Research Online

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This paper explores the contributions of sociology (and overlapping disciplines such as anthropology, social policy, and cultural studies) to happiness scholarship from the Enlightenment through to the present day. Pre-20th century thinkers whose work led to the formation of social science tended to take the theme of happiness seriously as a central challenge of social scholarship. Over the past century, sociologists have made important contributions to understanding happiness, although its absence from textbooks, encyclopedias, and conferences suggests that happiness has never been a major theme in mainstream sociology. The discipline's role in happiness scholarship could be greatly strengthened through more systematic and explicit approaches, especially in qualitative research. These will doubtless be developed soon, as sociology catches up with the other social sciences (most notably psychology and economics) that have already made great progress in convincing general publics and politicians that something so elusive as happiness can be analysed and assessed in robust and illuminating ways. A ‘happiness lens’ is recommended as a way of making sociology more transparent regarding its contributions to understanding and promoting good societies and good lives. This lens complements pathologism with positivity; insists on empathic effort to respect first-person subjectivity; and promotes holism and lifecourse perspectives.

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“…It may be that schools are trying to impose a hegemony of collectivism and community which is alien to many students (Ziehe, 2000). Recent research has demonstrated a consistent link between adolescent happiness and what Glatzer (2000) has labelled 'incommensurable individuality'. Drawing on the Simmelian principle of individualism as the foundation of happiness, Veenhoven (1999) has found that happiness is equated with both opportunity and capacity to choose in a context that has a 'moral appreciation of individualism' within Western cultures.…”

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‘Everybody’s a Nobody in School’

Williamson

Cullingford

2003

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The experiences of 20 male young offenders who had been excluded from secondary school are reported in this article. Participants were interviewed about their school experiences and data analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Three themes are discussed here. The first relates to participants' perceptions that their individuality and autonomy were threatened in the school environment, which was believed to value conformity and uniformity. The second reports a particular dislike of certain rules and the ways in which rules were enforced. Finally, participants discussed the appeal of material consumption, which allowed for the purchase of goods which enhanced their sense of individuality. Most of the money acquired by participants was through crime practised whilst truanting. These results are discussed within Eccles et al.'s (1993) stage-environment fit framework.

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Happiness: Classic Theory in the Light of Current Research

Cited by 28 publications

References 15 publications

Effects of Service Quality, Customer Trust and Corporate Image on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty: An Assessment of Travel Agencies Customer in South Sumatra Indonesia

Effects of Service Quality, Customer Trust and Corporate Image on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty: An Assessment of Travel Agencies Customer in South Sumatra Indonesia

Positive Sociology and Appreciative Empathy: History and Prospects

‘Everybody’s a Nobody in School’

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