Status anxiety
By: Alain de Botton.
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Self-esteem; Social status
Description: Drawing from the fields of history, psychology, politics, and economics, a look at the anxieties associated with a pursuit of status explains how humans have sought to cope with their fears and offers suggestions on ways to deal with the problem.

For this study, de Botton asks where our worries about status come from and what, if anything, we can do to reduce them. He looks at how people have coped with these anxieties in the past with a range of unexpected examples and entertaining anecdotes.
Notes: Includes index.