Satisfaction not guaranteed [electronic resource] : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.

By: Stearns, Peter NContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2012Description: ix, 270 pISBN: 9780814783634 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Civilization, Modern -- 21st century | ProgressGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 909.83 LOC classification: CB430 | .S74 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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