Stearns, Peter N.
Satisfaction not guaranteed dilemmas of progress in modern society / [electronic resource] : Peter N. Stearns. - New York : New York University Press, c2012. - ix, 270 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Civilization, Modern--21st century.
Progress.
Electronic books.
CB430 / .S74 2012eb
909.83
Satisfaction not guaranteed dilemmas of progress in modern society / [electronic resource] : Peter N. Stearns. - New York : New York University Press, c2012. - ix, 270 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Civilization, Modern--21st century.
Progress.
Electronic books.
CB430 / .S74 2012eb
909.83