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100	1		_aTaylor, David.
245	1	0	_aWellbeing and welfare _h[electronic resource] : _bA psychosocial analysis of being well and doing well enough / _cDavid Taylor.
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520			_aWellbeing is increasingly supplanting welfare as a central political goal for social and public policy. In academic social policy, some writers have suggested that a focus on wellbeing allows us to consider a ‘fully rounded humanity’ whereas welfare focuses on economic utility. This article avoids this polarisation and proposes a generative and relational view of wellbeing and welfare as mutually constitutive. It adopts a trans-disciplinary critical psychosocial perspective to reveal highly normative views of wellbeing and agency employed in these political and academic discourses. It proposes a view of agency for wellbeing which is contextual, includes non-rational action and is oriented to being well enough with others. Instead of a concern with outcome measures such as happiness, it proposes a view of wellbeing as a process which varies according to context. Drawing on the notion of ‘thick’ and ‘thin’ needs, the specific content of wellbeing is seen as generated through ‘close’ and ‘distant’ relationships. This approach challenges contemporary policy responses to wellbeing which are individualised and market-led and suggests that a question for social policy is: which relationships and contexts are generative of individual wellbeing and welfare?
538			_aMode of access: Internet.
773	0		_tJournal of Social Policy _g2011, Vol. 40, Issue 4 _x1469-7823
856			_uhttps://ezproxy01.ny.edu.hk:2078/10.1017/S0047279411000249 _zClick here to access full-text article
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