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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 :
NYU Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.