Showing how Americans have massively turned to a self-help empowerment model to manage chronic feelings of insecurity, Anxiety in Middle-Class America explains why no group has ever been as anxious about anxiety and interested in tackling it as a moral and personal problem.
Showing how Americans have massively turned to a self-help empowerment model to manage chronic feelings of insecurity, Anxiety in Middle-Class America explains why no group has ever been as anxious about anxiety and interested in tackling it as a moral and personal problem.
Valérie de Courville Nicol is Professor of Sociology at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of Social Economies of Fear and Desire: Emotional Regulation, Emotion Management, and Embodied Autonomy (2011) and of Le Soupçon Gothique: L'Intériorisation de la Peur en Occident (2004).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Sociology of contemporary anxiety 2. Self-help for emotional insecurity 3. Separation anxiety 4. Social anxiety 5. Generalized anxiety 6. Existential anxiety 7. Health Anxiety 8. Performance anxiety Conclusion Annex A: List of primary self-help titles used for analysis
Introduction 1. Sociology of contemporary anxiety 2. Self-help for emotional insecurity 3. Separation anxiety 4. Social anxiety 5. Generalized anxiety 6. Existential anxiety 7. Health Anxiety 8. Performance anxiety Conclusion Annex A: List of primary self-help titles used for analysis
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