Satisfaction not guaranteed [electronic resource] : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (p. cm.)ISBN:- 9780814783634
- 909.83 23
- CB430 .S74 2012
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.
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