Satisfaction not guaranteed dilemmas of progress in modern society /

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Main Author: Stearns, Peter N.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2012.
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260 |a New York :  |b New York University Press,  |c c2012. 
300 |a ix, 270 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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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650 0 |a Civilization, Modern  |y 21st century. 
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