Towards a Developmental Understanding of Happiness Alexandra Jugureanu, Jason Hughes and Kahryn Hughes Abstract

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Notes

1^ The extent to which we might consider happiness studies to constitute a ‘science’, and at that a ‘new’ one is of course a topic of some considerable debate and controversy. Indeed, a number of sociologists have become interested in the manner in which happiness studies, and related fields such as positive psychology, employ the rhetoric of science as part of ongoing legitimation contests (see, for example, Hughes 2005; McDonald & O’Callahan 2008). The rise of what Sarah Ahmed calls the ‘happiness industry’, including the importance of boundary work (Sismondo 2004) pertaining to its attempts to maintain scientific legitimacy, particularly in the face of increasing public and intellectual skepticism constitutes a topic of considerable potential.