Lurching toward happiness in America
By: Claude Fischer
Series: Boston Review Book; Boston review book
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9780262322898; 9780262028240
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE; Quality of life; Popular Culture; Anthropology; Cultural; Civilization; Economic conditions; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Social conditions; Public Policy; Cultural Policy; Essays; Happiness; Economic history
Description: 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."
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Plumbing Unhappiness; title: 1. Happiness Policy; title: 2. E-Disharmony?; title: 3. The Loneliness Scare; title: 4. Is the Gender Revolution Over?; title: 5. The Leisure Gap; title: 6. How to Be Poor; title: 7. Extremely Local; title: Part II: Policy for a Happier America; title: 8. The Good Life; title: 9. Accidental Billionaire; title: 10. Mind the Gap; title: Acknowledgments; title: About the Author; title: Boston Review Books.