Satisfaction not guaranteed dilemmas of progress in modern society /
Saved in:
| Hovedforfatter: | |
|---|---|
| Institution som forfatter: | |
| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
| Udgivet: |
New York :
New York University Press,
c2012.
|
| Fag: | |
| Online adgang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
| Tags: |
Tilføj Tag
Ingen Tags, Vær først til at tagge denne postø!
|
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.