Satisfaction not guaranteed [electronic resource] : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.
Publication details: New York : New York University Press, c2012.Description: ix, 270 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 909.83 23
- CB430 .S74 2012eb
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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