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Satisfaction not guaranteed : dilemmas of progress in modern society
- Title
- Satisfaction not guaranteed : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.
- Author
- Stearns, Peter N.
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 270 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-4344
- ISBN
- 9780814783627 (cl : alk. paper)
- 0814783627 (cl : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011045365
- OCLC
- YBP 2011045365
- Author
- Stearns, Peter N.
- Title
- Satisfaction not guaranteed : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.
- Imprint
- New York : New York University Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-4344