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‘Unhappy News’: Process, Rhetoric, and Context in the Making of the Happiness Problem

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Sociological Research Online, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 43 - 66

Swansea University Author: Ashley Frawley Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/1360780417744791

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This article examines the emergence and spread of happiness as a social problem, drawing on a study of UK national newspapers. It draws on insights from social problems constructionism and related social movement theory to analyse the rise of the phenomenon in terms of the processual, rhetorical, an...

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ISSN: 1360-7804 1360-7804
Published: Sage 2018
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