Fast Food and Fun.
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Jörg Zirfas
Abstract
The text contrasts two eating situations and the sentimental values associated with each: the paper proposes that we can relate eating fast food primarily with present happiness, namely fun, while the traditional family meal is associated with satisfaction and a sense of well-being. Well-being has a stronger emphasis on the emotional dimension of the experience of more or less extensive states and developments of happiness; the concept of satisfaction targets more the cognitive factor of happiness, and fun is defined as an emotion which expresses individual self-determination and self-compliance. The fun in fast food involves the public, the individual experience and the character of the event; the well-being at the dining table involves privacy, duration and the social experience. A modern imperative is expressed in fast-food eating: Live your life now as a happy one: Eat it, be happy and show it!
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- Editorial
- Introduction: Well-being in Ritual Practices
- The Price of Ritual
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- Fast Food and Fun.
- Die Organisation von Wohlbefinden in japanischen Kindergärten
- Rite of Redemption.
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- Bullfighting, Self-Enhancement, and Well-Being in Rural Japan
- Whose Festival is it?
- Shinjo Matsuri: Community Revitalization through the Construction and Circulation of Decorated Floats
- Rituelle Modulation, Liminalität und die nembutsu-Praxis im ländlichen Japan
- The Happiness of the Family.
- Wisdom on the Pursuit of Happiness in Daily Life.
- Transnational Ecstasy and Japanese Ganbarism: Cultural Patterns in the Pedagogy of Outward Bound Japan
- From Fighting to Joy in Kendo
- The “Performance” of Kyōgen.
- Well-being and Risk-taking Behavior.
