How Long to Read The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 30 minutes to read The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice by Steven R. Smith

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book provides important philosophical insights concerning the kind of creatures we are such that we can experience something we understand as well-being, with these insights then being applied to various areas of social policy and welfare practice. The author defends what he calls The Ontology of Well-Being Thesis (TOWT), addressing ontological questions about the human condition, and how these questions are fundamental to issues concerning what we might know about human well-being and how we should promote it. Yet, surprisingly, these ontological questions are often side-lined in academic, political, and policy and practice based debates about well-being. Addressing these questions, head-on, six features of the human condition are identified via TOWT: human embodiment, finiteness, sociability, cognition, evaluation, and agency. The main argument of the thesis is that these features reveal the conflicting character of human experiences, which can, in turn, have a profound bearing on our experience of well-being. Notably, it is our conflicting experiences of time, emotion, and self-consciousness, which can potentially help us experience well-being in complex and multi-dimensional ways. The author then applies these insights to various social policies and welfare practices, concerning, for example, pensions, disability, bereavement counselling, social prescribing within health settings, the promotion of mental health, and co-production practices. This book is of importance to philosophers, social policy analysts, and welfare practitioners and is also relevant to the fields of psychology, sociology, politics, and the health sciences.

How long is The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice?

The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice by Steven R. Smith is 270 pages long, and a total of 67,500 words.

This makes it 91% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 8 minutes to read The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice aloud.

What Reading Level is The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice?

The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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