The Pursuit of Happiness and the Realization of Sympathy: Cultural Patterns of Self, Social Relations, and Well-being
Author(s)
Kitayama, Shinobu; Markus, Hazel Rose
Abstract
Kitayama and Markus take the most radical cultural position in advancing the notion that both “well” and “being” must be defined in cultural terms, and therefore that the very texture of subjective well-being varies across cultures. These authors suggest that well-being is necessarily defined in social terms in all societies, and that a person’s quality of life is defined collaboratively with others, not simply from an internal frame of reference.
