Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society

Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments ix  Introduction: Being Cheerful and Modern  part i. The Modern and the Happy: A Tenuous Embrace   The Gap: Happiness Scales and the Edge of Sadness   Component Parts: Modernity and Ideas of  Happiness and Progress as Historical Forces part ii. Maladjustments in Modernity   Modernity’s Deficiencies   False Starts and Surprises:  Making Modernity More Difficult  The Dilemmas of Work in Modernity  part iii. Great Expectations   Death as a Modern Quandary   Century of the Child?  Childhood, Parenting, and Modernity  Born to Shop: Consumerism as the Modern Panacea  Conclusion: Shaping Modernity  Notes  Index  About the Author  This page intentionally left blank ...