Valérie de Courville Nicol

Anxiety in Middle-Class America (eBook, ePUB)

Sociology of Emotional Insecurity in Late Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000418750
• Artikelnr.: 62045245

Autorenporträt

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