Lurching Toward Happiness in America
The promise of America has long been conceived as the promise of happiness. Being American is all about the opportunity to pursue one's own bliss. But what is the good life, and are we getting closer to its attainment? In the cacophony of competing conceptions of the good, technological interventions that claim to help us achieve it, and rancorous debate over government's role in securing it for us, every step toward happiness seems to come with at least one step back. In Lurching toward Happiness in America, acclaimed sociologist Claude Fischer explores the data, the myths, and history to understand how far America has come in delivering on…
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- ISBN: 978-0-262-02824-0
- EAN: 9780262028240
- Produktnummer: 16330445
- Verlag: Mit Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Masse: H18.3 cm x B12.2 cm x D1.7 cm 213 g
- Gewicht: 213
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
Claude S. Fischer is Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character, and, most recently, Still Connected: Family and Friends in America Since 1970.
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