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Satisfaction not guaranteed
dilemmas of progress in modern society
by Peter N. Stearns
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Satisfaction not guaranteed: dilemmas of progress in modern society
2012, New York University Press
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0814783627 9780814783627
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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