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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Satisfaction not guaranteed : dilemmas of progress in modern society by Peter N. Stearns. ISBN 9780814783627. Published by New York University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
