Satisfaction not guaranteed dilemmas of progress in modern society /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
c2012.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10555037 |
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.