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Satisfaction not guaranteed : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.
LIBRA CB430 .S74 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stearns, Peter N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Modern--21st century.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Progress.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 270 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2012]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814783627
- 0814783627
- 9780814783634
- 0814783635
- 9780814788554
- 0814788556
- OCLC:
- 742512571
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