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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2012.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.