经济学“幸福悖论”的一个文化回答——基于顺德数据与案例的考察

A Cultural Response to the Happiness Paradox in Economics:Based on the Data of Shunde and the Case Investigation

"幸福悖论"是经济学的一个经典命题,也是正发生于中国相对富裕地区的一个显著性社会现象。不同于经济学主要经由外在经济发展指标去推断个体内心幸福的做法,经由对经济学"幸福悖论"命题的理论反思与发生在珠三角西岸城市顺德"幸福悖论"现象的实地考察,以社会学结构功能主义理论为思想导线,从社会文化价值整合角度去诠释文化及其向度如何影响幸福以及这种影响背后蕴含的社会治理意义,即对"为什么不幸福、如何才能幸福"做出一个文化层面的解答。

Happiness Paradox is a classic proposition in economics, and a significant social phe- nomenon appearing in China＇s relatively affluent areas. Unlike the practice in economics that deduce individual inner happiness mainly through indicators of external economic development, this study, tak- ing the theory of structural functionalism in sociology as the guiding line and through theoretical re- flection on the proposition of happiness paradox in economics and on-the-spot, investigation of the happiness paradox phenomenon in the west coast city of Shunde by the Pearl River Delta, tries to in- terpret how happiness is influenced by culture and its dimensions and the meaning of social gover- nance behind such influence from the perspective of social and cultural value integration, i.e. to give an answer to the question of ＂why not happy, how to become happy＂ from cultural dimensions.