TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stearns,Peter N.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Satisfaction not guaranteed: dilemmas of progress in modern society 
AV  - CB430 .S74 2012eb
U1  - 909.83 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Progress
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10555037
ER  -