Individual welfare as an object of social research
Journal Title: Вісник Національного технічного університету України “Київський політехнічний інститут”. Політологія. Соціологія. Право. - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
The article deals with the study of individual well-being in sociological approach to isolate those aspects, the empirical research of which will provide much information about the phenomenon. Well-being is understood as a “state of equilibrium or balance that can be affected by life events or challenges” (R. Dodge, A. P. Daly, J. Huyton, L. D. Sanders, 2012). The scheme of the study of individual well-being, consisting of subjective, socio-psychological, social, cultural and educational, political, economic, environmental indicators, is proposed. It is noted that well-being of personality is primarily subjective in its nature, but for the complex research of the problems it is necessary to take into account social, economic, political and legal, cultural and educational factors. R. Inglehart in his theory of post-materialism highlights a number of values that are directly incorporated into the structure of civic culture, and thus form the value aspect of the macrolevel that influences on the interrelation of “social – individual”. It is concluded that individual well-being is a complex socio-psychological phenomenon, the study of which in the sociological dimension requires taking into account objective and subjective approaches, evaluation of various aspects of human life. Sociological analysis of the phenomenon on the base of psychological, sociological and statistical data will provide much information about the level of individual well-being of the population of some territory or members of certain social groups and that will help to identify the most problematic and gender sensitive aspects of the studied phenomenon. The examples of empirical research of various aspects of well-being are presented: in Ukraine these are Integral index of social well-being (IISWB), Index of social well-being (ISWB), Index of individual well-being (IIWB); at a global level these are UN Human Development Index, Quality of Life Index, Happy Planet Index, a global study “The World Happiness Report” and other.
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О. А. Дячук
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