Satisfaction not guaranteed dilemmas of progress in modern society /

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Auteur principal: Stearns, Peter N.
Collectivité auteur: ebrary, Inc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: New York : New York University Press, c2012.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.