everyday life – Renée Middlemost

What makes you happy? Would you rate yourself as being happy?

Try this:

Denmark has it all figured out!

Do you think they have the balance right?

Focus questions:

– How has happiness become a business?

– how does happiness intersect with consumption?

– how is unhappiness culturally coded?

– what is affective labour, and why is it important?

Read this:

– what are the main points raised in this article?

– what do you think?

Work Work Work Work Work Work

– What do you think of, when you think of work? (how does the idea of work shape society?)

Focus Questions:

– what is the cultural significance of work?

– how does technology enable work? What changes in work has it enabled?

– why is there not more resistance to work?

-what is the role of gender in relation to work?

– What is the protestant work ethic?

What do you expect/hope for from work?

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