Anxiety in Middle-Class America: Sociology of Emotional Insecurity in Late Modernity

by Valrie de Courville Nicol

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367760703
• ISBN13: 9780367760700
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"