Satisfaction Not Guaranteed
| Author | : Peter N. Stearns |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2012-04-30 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780814783627 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0814783627 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (627 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Satisfaction Not Guaranteed by : Peter N. Stearns
Download or read book Satisfaction Not Guaranteed written by Peter N. Stearns and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
