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Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society
In 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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-8363-4
- EAN: 9780814783634
- Produktnummer: 22583210
- Verlag: NYU Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 279 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'535 KB
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