After success? Anxieties of affluence in an English village

Ian Loader*, Evi Girling, Richard Sparks

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In his recent book After Success (from which we have borrowed part of our title), Ray Pahl postulates that anxiety is part and parcel of the human condition, something that ‘in some form or other has plagued people for as long as they have been literate – and probably earlier’ (Pahl 1995: 15). He is also quick to point out, however, that thinking about anxiety in this kind of generic way is of litde sociological interest, it being something – like that old Home Office (1983: 15) finding about the crime risks of the statistically average citizen – that tells us both everything and nothing. According to Pahl: ‘The task for the sociologist is not simply to address the general question of what causes people to feel anxious but rather to explore the specific contemporary conditions that cause anxieties for specific categories of the population’ (Pahl 1995: 15; emphasis in original).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCrime, Risk and Insecurity
Subtitle of host publicationLaw and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse
EditorsTim Hope, Richard Sparks
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Pages65-82
Number of pages18
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9780203615942
ISBN (Print)9780415243438, 9780415243445
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Nov 2000

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