- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 270 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Satisfaction not guaranteed (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Satisfaction not guaranteed (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2011045365
- OCLC
- ssj0000658520
- Author
Stearns, Peter N.
- Title
Satisfaction not guaranteed [electronic resource] : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.
- Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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