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After Success Ray Pahl

After Success By Ray Pahl

After Success by Ray Pahl

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Summary

aeo An accessible sociological exploration of the problems affecting the majority of people living in modern societies, including the successful members of society. aeo Uses interviews with a diversity of successful people which provide highly articulate, vivid and memorable accounts of their lives.

After Success Summary

After Success: Fin-de-Siecle Anxiety and Identity by Ray Pahl

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.

After Success Reviews

a Outstanding ... the most clarifying work of sociology Ia ve ever read ... essential.a Pat Kane, New Statesman and Society a Stimulating analysis ... the great merit of Pahla s book is that his critique of post--modernist assumptions about the self and anxiety points up this misleading conflation of the soical and the psychological, and makes him aware of the misuses of a traditiona and over--socialised conceptions of the individual.a Work, Employment and Society a A characteristically bold and provocative text ... extremely interesting.a Time and Society a One of the most stimulating and relevant works I have read for a long time.a Sociology

About Ray Pahl

Ray Pahl is a leading sociologist with an international reputation. He is the author of many books including Divisions of Labour, On Work, and After Success and has published numerous articles across a broad spectrum of sociological issues. Ray Pahl is Research Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Table of Contents

Preface. 1. Introduction: Mortality, the Individual and Society. 2. Success in Shame Cultures and Guilt Cultures. 3. Managing Without Success 1960--1990. 4. Styles of Success in Business. 5. The Neurosis of Success. 6. Success--Led or Anxiety--Driven?. 7. Working for Self Identity. 8. From Hocclevea s Complaint to the Anxious Class. 9. Seeking Balance. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

Additional information

GOR004251793
9780745613345
0745613349
After Success: Fin-de-Siecle Anxiety and Identity by Ray Pahl
Ray Pahl
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Polity Press
19950930
240
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