| Author | : Peter N. Stearns |
| File Size | : 46,7 Mb |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 30 April 2012 |
| ISBN | : 9780814783627 |
| Pages | : 280 pages |
Satisfaction Not Guaranteed by Peter N. Stearns Book PDF Summary
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.