We argue here for a conception of wellbeing that takes account of the
objective circumstances of the person and their subjective evaluation of
these. But both the objective circumstances and perceptions of them are
located in society and also in the frames of meaning with which we live.
Thus wellbeing is also and necessarily both a relational and a dynamic
concept. States of wellbeing/illbeing are continually produced in the
interplay within the social, political, economic and cultural processes of
human social being. It cannot be conceived just as an outcome, but must be
understood also as a process.