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Satisfaction not guaranteed : dilemmas of progress in modern society /

Our satisfaction should be guaranteed. Modernity's blessings are many and bountiful. Many affluent societies have vanquished the great plagues of earlier generations: in the West, food shortages are nearly eliminated, infant and maternal mortality has fallen dramatically, birth control is both...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stearns, Peter N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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