Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society

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265 265 abortion, 83 abstinence, 86 accidents, 147–51, 181 Acedia, 243 adolescence, 204–5 advertising, 220, 230, 241 African Americans, 26, 38, 144 Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 97 agriculture, 6, 100, 175, 196 Alger, Horatio, 115–16, 117 alienation, 114, 228, 124 allowances, 182, 235, 246 American Association of Retired Persons, 95 American Cancer Society, 146 amusement parks, 229 anger, 191, 193 anorexia nervosa, 101, 203 Ariès, Philippe, 129 art, 44, 239 Asia, 16, 17, 90 Attention Deficit Disorder, 185 Australia, 107, 108, 156, 251 automobile, 148–49, 181, 204, 228, 237 baby boom, 178, 187, 207, 242 Bangladesh, 18 Baruch, Dorothy, 193 Bhutan, 258 bicycle helmets, 145–51 bicycles, 227–28 birth rates, 38–39, 71–78, 170, 178–79, 183, 199, 227 birthdays, 199, 202, 238, 245 biting, 31, 34, 35 boredom, 9, 124, 201, 203, 243–45 Boy Scouts, 48 Brazil, 85, 201, 251, 256 Britain: boredom, 244; consumerism, 219–20, 251; environment, 64; as modernizer , 19; nutrition, 100; Victorian era, 82; workers, 111, 124 bullying, 192, 195 burnout, 122 California, 52 Campbell, Colin, 222 Canada, 23, 251 Carnegie, Dale, 48, 193 Casanova, 80 Catholicism, 79 cemeteries, 43, 133–42 cheerfulness: children’s, 197–206; death, 134; modernity, 7, 20, 257–58; nostalgia , 2; workers, 111–12, 119 Chicago School (sociology), 53 child abuse, 33, 62, 174 child labor, 112, 173, 175–77 childhood, 169–210; boredom, 244, 245; consumerism, 222, 231, 240, 246; death, 132, 141, 145, 150, 151–53, 166; disease, 108; food, 101; modernity, 5, 52, 255; naming, 31, work, 37–38 Children’s Bureau, 179, 185 China, 107, 112, 215–17, 239, 249, 256, 257 chores, 176 Christmas, 235, 238 Churchill, Winston, 63 Civil War, 63 clothing, 33, 34, 76, 217, 221, 229, 232–33 Cobbett, William, 42 college, 177, 187, 247 Index 266  Index College Board, 177, 187, 188 comfort, 33–35, 135, 213, 221 communes, 8, 99 community, 37, 62, 258 commuting, 36, 103, 118, 123 comparative analysis, 7, 259 computers, 36, 119–20, 240 Comstock law, 83 conception cycle, 34 Condorcet, Nicolas de, 1, 50 consumerism, 213–54; children, 182, 199–200; happiness, 19, 24, 47, 199; industrialization, 33–34; old age, 95; standards of living, 15; youthfulness, 34–35 contraception, 78–89 corsets, 105 Costa Rica, 17 cremation, 143, 165 crime, 53 cross-marketing, 237 crusades, 216 dating, 85, 234 day care, 171, 205 de Wendel, François, 49 death, 5, 39–40, 95, 131–67 debt, 250 Denmark, 16–19 dentistry, 43 department stores, 229, 235 Depression (1930s), 94, 102, 104, 199, 236 depression (psychological), 21–26, 139, 203, 251 Diana, Princess, 162 dieting, 104, 106 disease, 101, 136–37, 178, 203 Disney Company, 45–46, 173, 200, 201–2, 203 divorce, 152, 201, 207, 233 drugs, 181 Easterbrook, Gregg, 62 economists, 101 education, 15, 50–51, 75–76, 170, 173–78, 184–87, 197 Ehrenreich, Barbara, 255 electronics, 240 embalming, 134 emotions, 189–95, 221–22 engineers, 117, 148–49, 157 Enlightenment, 1–2, 50–52; children, 172–73, 198; consumerism, 213, 217; happiness, 41; longevity, 89; optimism, 69 environment, 55, 64–65, 214, 248–49 envy, 225 Esquirol, Jean-Etienne, 22 etiquette, 239–40, 244 euthanasia, 155–56 extended families, 62–63 factories, 4, 36, 90–92, 111–16, 126 family, 71–78; childhood death, 40, 135, 151–52; children, 40, 169; consumerism , 231, 237, 240, 246; extended, 62–63; happiness, 19; old age, 95; war, 63; work, 37–38, 111, 114, 117, 221 famines, 100–102 fathers, 38–39, 169–210 fear: childhood, 170, 173, 194, 235; death, 137–38, 145–46, 165, 167; war, 65 feminism, 71, 72, 86, 98, 101 festivals, 70, 118 Fletcher, Horace, 104 food, 99–108, 100, 204 foot binding, 71 Ford, Henry, 119 forks, 224–25 France: advertising, 220; children, 184; consumerism, 220, 224, 236; disease, 93, 107; happiness, 16, 19; obesity, 107; old age, 93, 97; vacation, 3 Franklin, Benjamin, 1, 50, 115 Freud, Sigmund, 44 Friedman, Thomas, 53, 63 Fukuyama, Frank, 53 funeral homes, 143–44 genocide, 55 Index  267 Germany, 93, 185, 251 Gibson Girl, 105 global warming, 64 Graham, Billy, 45 Graham crackers, 84, 213 grandparents, 63, 180, 183, 194 Gray Panthers, 98 Greece, 90 grief, 42, 43, 131–67, 189, 193, 207 Halloween, 141, 206 happiness: children, 195–205; consumerism , 213–14, 217, 235–36, 243–44, 247, 249–52; death, 131, 139, 159; disease, 106; modernity, 6...