A paradigmatic review of theories and studies of well-being | Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science. 2025. № 88. DOI: 10.17223/1998863X/88/13

A paradigmatic review of theories and studies of well-being

The article presents the potential of Burrell and Morgan’s theory of sociological paradigms for analyzing and mapping well-being theories and research. It is shown that the research space exhibits a paradigmatic structure shaped by the functionalist, radical structuralist, interpretive, and radical humanistic paradigms of the acquired knowledge about well-being. The specificity of the conceptualization of well-being in each paradigm is identified. The results of the analysis are applicable to the development of methods and programs for interdisciplinary and multi-paradigm well-being research based on the study of the conversion of conceptual meanings and corresponding well-being practices during the transition from one paradigm to another. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

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sociological paradigms, form of life, life-creation, subjective well-being, instrument of domination, governmentality of life, biopolitics, healthification, slow economy, commonalism, deep ecology, well-being practices, well-being discourses

Authors

Name	Organization	E-mail
Baryshev Aleksey A.	Tomsk State University	barishevnp@mail.ru
Shchekotin Evgeny V.	Siberian State University of Water Transport	evgvik1978@mail.ru
Barysheva Galina A.	Tomsk Polytechnic University	ganb@tpu.ru

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