Satisfaction not guaranteed : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.
2012
909.83 S799s 2012
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Title
Satisfaction not guaranteed : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.
Author
ISBN
9780814783627 (cl : alk. paper)
0814783627 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814783634 (ebook)
0814783635 (ebook)
9780814788554 (ebook)
0814788556 (ebook)
0814783627 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814783634 (ebook)
0814783635 (ebook)
9780814788554 (ebook)
0814788556 (ebook)
Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
ix, 270 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
909.83 S799s 2012
System Control No.
(OCoLC)742512571
(OCoLC)742512571
(OCoLC)742512571
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: being cheerful and modern
The gap: happiness scales and the edge of sadness
Component parts: modernity and ideas of happiness and progress as historical forces
Modernity's deficiencies
False starts and surprises: making modernity more difficult
The dilemmas of work in modernity
Death as a modern quandary
Century of the child? Childhood, parenting, and modernity
Born to shop: consumerism as the modern panacea.
The gap: happiness scales and the edge of sadness
Component parts: modernity and ideas of happiness and progress as historical forces
Modernity's deficiencies
False starts and surprises: making modernity more difficult
The dilemmas of work in modernity
Death as a modern quandary
Century of the child? Childhood, parenting, and modernity
Born to shop: consumerism as the modern panacea.
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