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Satisfaction Not Guaranteed : Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society /
In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, modern urban, industrial, affluent societies have made great strides towards fixing some of the problems that plagued other societies for centuries: food shortages are nearly eliminated, infant and maternal mortality has fallen dramatically, birth control...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. The Modern and the Happy
- 2. The Gap
- 3. Component Parts
- Part II. Maladjustments in Modernity
- 4. Modernity's Deficiencies
- 5. False Starts and Surprises
- 6. The Dilemmas of Work in Modernity
- Part III. Great Expectations
- 7. Death as a Modern Quandary
- 8. Century of the Child?
- 9. Born to Shop
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author