Do the Arts and Culture Have a Positive Impact on Happiness? Beyond Methodological Issues

Nobuko Kawashima ()
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Nobuko Kawashima: Doshisha University

Chapter Chapter 17 in Advances in Happiness Research, 2016, pp 311-324 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter aims to make a small, yet unusual and hopefully contribution to the growing area of happiness studies from the perspective of ‘cultural policy’ research. It will challenge an implicit assumption that culture and the arts make people happy by critically examining some of the inherent problems and dilemmas of cultural policy and its paradoxical nature, as these are in conflict with the happiness that cultural policy is supposed to promote. It will be suggested that, rather than devising various ways of measuring the value of culture on its own and in association with other policy purposes, culture should be seen as an integral part of the whole economic and social system and as indispensable infrastructure for economic development and social sustainability.

Keywords: Life Satisfaction; Leisure Activity; Social Inclusion; Creative Industry; Cultural Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55753-1_17

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