Stearns, Peter N. <br/><br/>
Satisfaction not guaranteed  dilemmas of progress in modern society /  [electronic resource] : 
Peter N. Stearns. 
 - New York :  New York University Press,  c2012. 
 - ix, 270 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814783634 (electronic bk.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civilization, Modern--21st century.<br/>Progress.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CB430  / .S74 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>909.83