Lurching Toward Happiness in America

by Claude Fischer

Book Overview

Amid confusing and alarmist media claims about our changing culture, Claude Fischer sets the record straight on social trends 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262028247
• ISBN13: 9780262028240
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.8" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher