num_pages: 3
description: There are few more powerful desires than the wish to be thought of as a success, worthy of dignity and respect. We long for status and dread its opposite. This title asks where our worries about questions of status come from and what, if anything, we can do to reduce them.
title: Status Anxiety
titlecomplete: Status Anxiety
genres: Essays, Society, Nonfiction, Self Help, Philosophy, Cultural, Personal Development, Psychology, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 18773
publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)