001480165 000__ 05033nam\a22008175i\4500 001480165 001__ 1480165 001480165 003__ DE-B1597 001480165 005__ 20231026035128.0 001480165 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480165 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480165 008__ 230918t20122012nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480165 010__ $$a2011045365 001480165 020__ $$a9780814783634 001480165 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814783627.001.0001$$2doi 001480165 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547946 001480165 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480165 0410_ $$aeng 001480165 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001480165 05000 $$aCB430$$b.S74 2012 001480165 050_4 $$aCB430$$b.S74 2016 001480165 072_7 $$aHIS037030$$2bisacsh 001480165 08204 $$a909.83$$223 001480165 1001_ $$aStearns, Peter N., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001480165 24510 $$aSatisfaction Not Guaranteed :$$bDilemmas of Progress in Modern Society /$$cPeter N. Stearns. 001480165 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2012] 001480165 264_4 $$c©2012 001480165 300__ $$a1 online resource 001480165 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480165 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480165 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480165 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480165 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$t1. Introduction -- $$tPart I. The Modern and the Happy -- $$t2. The Gap -- $$t3. Component Parts -- $$tPart II. Maladjustments in Modernity -- $$t4. Modernity's Deficiencies -- $$t5. False Starts and Surprises -- $$t6. The Dilemmas of Work in Modernity -- $$tPart III. Great Expectations -- $$t7. Death as a Modern Quandary -- $$t8. Century of the Child? -- $$t9. Born to Shop -- $$tConclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001480165 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480165 520__ $$aIn the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, modern urban, industrial, affluent societies have made great strides towards fixing some of the problems that plagued other societies for centuries: food shortages are nearly eliminated, infant and maternal mortality has fallen dramatically, birth control is both readily available and effective, education levels are higher, and internal violence is significantly reduced. Modernity's blessings are many and bountiful-but has modernity really made us happy?Satisfaction Not Guaranteed is a book about the modern condition, and why the gains of living in modern urban, industrial, affluent societies have not proved more satisfying than they have. It examines why real results that paralleled earlier anticipations of progress have not generated the ease and contentment that the same forecasters assumed would apply to modern life. Employing his trademark inquiry of emotions in American history, Peter N. Stearns asks why, if modern life has been generally characterized by measurable themes of progress, abundance, and improvement, are people not happier or more content with their lot in life? Why is there an increased incidence of psychological depression, anxiety, and the sense that no one has ever reached a pinnacle of happiness or contentment? It's not so much that modernity went wrong, but rather that it has not gone as swimmingly as was anticipated. Satisfaction Not Guaranteed uses concrete examples from both history and the present, such as happiness surveys, to discuss how as a society we might better juggle the demands of modern life with the pursuit of happiness. 001480165 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001480165 546__ $$aIn English. 001480165 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001480165 650_0 $$aCivilization, Modern$$y21st century. 001480165 650_0 $$aProgress. 001480165 650_4 $$aHISTORY / Modern / General$$2sh. 001480165 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001480165 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tNew York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$z9783110706444 001480165 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780814783627 001480165 852__ $$bebk 001480165 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814783634$$zOnline Access 001480165 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1480165$$pGLOBAL_SET 001480165 912__ $$a978-3-11-070644-4 New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001480165 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001480165 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001480165 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001480165 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001480165 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001480165 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001480165 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001480165 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001480165 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001480165 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001480165 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001480165 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001480165 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001480165 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001480165 980__ $$aBIB 001480165 980__ $$aEBOOK 001480165 982__ $$aEbook 001480165 983__ $$aOnline