Satisfaction not guaranteed [electronic resource] : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.
By: Stearns, Peter N.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: New York : New York University Press, c2012Description: ix, 270 p.Subject(s): Civilization, Modern -- 21st century | ProgressGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 909.83 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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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