The aim of the article is to present care and the concept of care ethics as fundamental in building and maintaining sustainable wellbeing for society as a whole. The first part reflects on the concept of wellbeing in the modern world, and reviews and synthesizes the scientific understanding of care to formulate a definition that best reflects its nature. The assumptions of the ethics of care are then presented, along with the Kathleen Lynch’s proposal of combining this concept with social justice as understood by Nancy Fraser. The article also contains an exploration of the meaning of care among men, based on selected theories of masculinity. The author draws from her own qualitative research, the material she accumulated (in-depth individual interviews) constituting the basis of a sociological attempt to find connections between masculinity and care suggesting that male care seems to be tied to extraordinary situations rather than a strongly internalised commitment characteristic of the ethics of care. The article should be treated as indicating the importance of research into male care, because its quality and methods of practice contribute to the achieving of social wellbeing.
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