After Success Fin-de-Siecle Anxiety and

This is an accessible sociological exploration of the troubles many people face in a new age of anxiety, drawing on interviews with various "successful" individuals and examining the meaning of "success" today.

Ray Pahl is Research Professor in Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury and at the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change at the University of Essex.

Preface
Introduction: Mortality, the Individual and Society
Success in Shame Cultures and Guilt Cultures
Managing Without Success 1960-1990
Styles of Success in Business
The Neurosis of Success
Success-Led or Anxiety-Driven
Working for Self Identity
From Hoccleve's Complaint to the Anxious Class
Seeking Balance
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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After Success Fin-de-Siecle Anxiety and Identity

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