Satisfaction not guaranteed
Stearns, Peter N.
Satisfaction not guaranteed dilemmas of progress in modern society / [electronic resource] : Peter N. Stearns. - New York : New York University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780814783634
Progress.
Civilization, Modern--21st century.
Electronic books.
CB430 / .S74 2012
909.83
Satisfaction not guaranteed dilemmas of progress in modern society / [electronic resource] : Peter N. Stearns. - New York : New York University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780814783634
Progress.
Civilization, Modern--21st century.
Electronic books.
CB430 / .S74 2012
909.83