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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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a 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 is both readily available and effective, education levels are higher, and internal violence is significantly reduced. Modernity's blessings are many and bountiful - but has modernity really made us happy? Satisfaction Not Guaranteed is a book about the modern condition, and why the gains of living. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Being Cheerful and Modern; PART I. The Modern and the Happy: A Tenuous Embrace; 2 The Gap: Happiness Scales and the Edge of Sadness; 3 Component Parts: Modernity and Ideas of Happiness and Progress as Historical Forces; PART II. Maladjustments in Modernity; 4 Modernity's Deciencies; 5 False Starts and Surprises: Making Modernity More Difficult; 6 The Dilemmas of Work in Modernity; PART III. Great Expectations; 7 Death as a Modern Quandary; 8 Century of the Child? Childhood, Parenting, and Modernity. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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