(July 30, 2016 at 1:01 am)Maelstrom Wrote: https://www.le.ac.uk/sociology/db158/SCo...201pt5.pdf
https://personal.eur.nl/veenhoven/Pub200...c-full.pdf
Dammit, I'm trying to copy a section from that second link, but my iPad won't let me. If you go to page 11 on that second pdf, they ask the question "Is subjective well-being a subject for sociology?" The author answers "yes," but the reasons he/she gives is that it gives clues about the social system an individual lives in and determines social behavior. So, essentially they're saying that you can learn important sociological information from assessing an individual's happiness, not that assessing an individual's happiness is actually in the realm of sociology. In fact, the author even states earlier on that many sociologists don't even think it's a valuable enough subject to study.
So, it's like I said. When you're referring to an individual's happiness and what affects it, you are talking psychology.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
