Title Lurching toward happiness in America / Claude Fischer

Published Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 129 pages) Series Boston Review Book Boston review book. Contents Introduction -- Part I: Plumbing Unhappiness -- 1. Happiness Policy -- 2. E-Disharmony? -- 3. The Loneliness Scare -- 4. Is the Gender Revolution Over? -- 5. The Leisure Gap -- 6. How to Be Poor -- 7. Extremely Local -- Part II: Policy for a Happier America -- 8. The Good Life -- 9. Accidental Billionaire -- 10. Mind the Gap -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Boston Review Books Summary Amid confusing and alarmist media claims about our changing culture, Claude Fischer sets the record straight on social trends in America Notes "A Boston review book." Print version record Subject Quality of life -- United States Happiness -- United States POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays. Civilization Economic history Happiness Quality of life Social conditions SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 21st century United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century Subject United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9780262322898 0262322897

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