TY - BOOK AU - Stearns,Peter N. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Satisfaction not guaranteed: dilemmas of progress in modern society AV - CB430 .S74 2012 U1 - 909.83 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Civilization, Modern KW - 21st century KW - Progress KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865920 ER -