ポスト物質社会と幸福の可能性
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We have been interested in the pursuit of happiness for long time. In this paper, we are concerned with the reasons of the value shift on happiness, focusing the well-being and with the social way of becoming a well-being in liberal democracy. To begin with, we inqire into the arguments of well-being. Inglehart finds out a long time shift from survival values to well-being values which emphasize the individual choice of lifestyles and self-expression in advanced industrial society,comparing the materialist and postmaterialist. Sen, by contrast, shows a new concept of well-being related to the functional sets of doings and beings. The concept enables us to analyze the capabilty of each individual in different conditions of the societies. It seems reasonable to suppose that reflexivity of late modernity has changed the individual and institutional value orientation. Referring these considerations, we propose a concept of post-material society where people seek their own well-being according to each social circumstances. As the post-material society is plurastic in values and social constitutive collectivity, it confronts the disagreement between subjective well-being and objective social welfare. Then, we consider the democratic way of making agreement from disagreement in plural complex society. We illustrate that communication of knowledge forms the themes and social environmemt about personal and social choices. Although the debate systems make collective decisions on becoming a well-being, to be sure, this is neither the exact collective well-being nor objective welfare. But we assume these agreements as a social consensus to promote social performance. Agreements on well-being ,which include different meanings actually, enhance the capabilty of individuals and produce a shared basis. Thus we see that it is possible in individual and institutional process of reflexivity.
- 社会・経済システム学会の論文
- 2006-10-14