This paper aims to develop a complex articulation of the civic meaningfulness of voluntary work that clarifies its political importance as a countervailing narrative pointing beyond dominant neoliberal and consumptive articulations of a good life. To start with, it sketches a hermeneutic perspective on civic meaningfulness based on the work of Paul Ricoeur. Subsequently, it introduces the ideas...

god-centered theories about the meaning of life maintain that a certain relationship with god is an essential condition for life to be meaningful. different interpretations have been proposed in regard to this theory, but the most important god-centered interpretation is the divine purpose theory. according to this theory, fulfilling god’s purpose is the only source of the meaningfulness of lif...

This paper explores the origins of a subjective sense of meaning in life from the perspective of cultural group selection within evolutionary theory. Philosophical underpinnings are discussed, as are the origins or morality and social groups. It is argued that a subjective meaning acts as a motivator of cultural transactions which allowed pre-human groups possessing meaning to survive over grou...

Meaning in movement is an enduring topic sport social sciences, but few studies have explored how meaningful and for whom. The authors examined the relationships between demographic variables, meaningfulness of sport, craftsmanship. Athletes ( N = 258, 61.6% male, age ?18) from United Kingdom completed a questionnaire, Work Inventory modified Craftsmanship Scale. Older individual significantly ...

A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Subjective Well-Being* Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on timeuse data and an objective measure of well-being. Whereas the measures of affect – net affect and the U-index – are uncorrelated with the objective quality-of-lif...