{"product_id":"after-success-9780745613345","title":"After Success","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eaeo 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Outstanding ... the most clarifying work of sociology I've ever read ... essential.' \u003ci\u003ePat Kane, New Statesman and Society\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Stimulating analysis ... the great merit of Pahl'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 'tradition' and over-socialised conceptions of the individual.' \u003ci\u003eWork, Employment and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A characteristically bold and provocative text ... extremely interesting.' \u003ci\u003eTime and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'One of the most stimulating and relevant works I have read for a long time.' \u003ci\u003eSociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: Mortality, the Individual and Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Success in Shame Cultures and Guilt Cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Managing Without Success 1960-1990.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Styles of Success in Business.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Neurosis of Success.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Success-Led or Anxiety-Driven?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Working for Self Identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. From Hoccleve's Complaint to the Anxious Class.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Seeking Balance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404341551447,"sku":"9780745613345","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745613345.jpg?v=1730486156","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/after-success-9780745613345","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}