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2021-12-28

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Recipes for Happiness: a Proposal for Analysing the Moral Orientation of Actions and Emotions

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https://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats-en.2021-1

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This paper draws up a proposal for analysing discourses on paths to happiness. Recipes promoted by the happiness industry are studied as moral guidelines for social action: imperative messages spread through the Internet seek to guide their recipients in their quest for happiness. In a field dominated by positive psychology, we approach happiness from a sociological perspective, which is to say as: an institutionalised social discourse; a form of social production; a socially-framed emotion. Research is based on systematic Internet observation and on quantitative and qualitative textual analysis procedures. We show how digital media in the 'happiness' field: (a) promotes recipes; (b) provides scientific legitimation for said recipes; (c) focuses on a generic individual as the recipient of the messages and as protagonist. A typology is proposed based on the meaning, nature and object of the actions that lead to happiness. Results show how recipes involve normative and moral orientations of actions and emotions: they indicate what to do and how to think and feel to be happy. Happiness as a moral obligation involves most concerns shaping the agenda of contemporary societies, with a strong emphasis on individualism and on a utilitarian understanding of social relations and the social environment.

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Felicitat, Emocions, Comportament col·lectiu, Condicions morals

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Happiness, Emotions, Collective behavior, Moral conditions

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Articles publicats en revistes (Sociologia)

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MARTÍN PÉREZ, Alberto, et al. Recipes for Happiness: a Proposal for Analysing the Moral Orientation of Actions and Emotions. Debats. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 13-28. ISSN 0212-0585. [consulted: 4 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/182158

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