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Anxiety in middle-class America : sociology of emotional insecurity in late modernity / Valérie de Courville Nicol

Courville Nicol, Valérie de, 1969- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

xiii, 312 Seiten ; 25 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheinungsdatum laut Vorlage: 2022, erschien bereits 2021

Erscheint auch als: Courville Nicol, Valérie de, 1969- : Anxiety in middle-class America. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-367-76070-0 (hardback); 978-0-367-76086-1 (paperback)

978-1-003-16541-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2021006257

OCoLC: 1244241140     

MS 1235      Ähnliche Literatur

HM1027.U6

305.5/50973

Basisklassifikation: 71.12 (Soziale Stratifikation; soziale Mobilität)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*USA ; Mittelstand ; Angst ; Psychische Gesundheit      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Anxiety -- Social aspects -- United States ; Middle class -- United States -- Psychological aspects ; Self-care, Health -- United States ; Mental health -- United States

"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. Anxiety is the focus of increasing preoccupation and intervention in middle-class America and the late modern world. It is reportedly the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting almost a quarter of its adult population every year. Views diverge on what this means. This work is for readers who are intrigued by the exponential rise in reported rates of anxiety across the lifespan and by all the talk about anxiety, dissatisfied with non-sociological and symptom-based accounts of mental health, and open-minded enough to consider the self-help phenomenon as more than an oppressive craze driven by capitalist industry, neoliberal ideology, complicit publishers, formulaic writers, and irreflexive consumers. In providing a sociologically informed account of some of the most widespread emotional troubles of late modern life and the unique historical pressures that promote them, this work will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of fields, from sociology, anthropology, and mind/body/society studies, to cultural history, communications, and social philosophy. It will also interest mental health professionals and cultural critics"--