How can "social anxiety" best be characterized as a "bourgeois conceit"?

Question

How can "social anxiety" best be characterized as a "bourgeois conceit"?

Answer 1

Social anxiety can be characterized as such, because it has much to do with the ego. Ego cannot be developed until after security, shelter, food, etc. are already all secured. In that way, it can be construed as a product of the bourgeois, but conceit is a strong word. While it may indeed have to do with self-esteem and ego, conceit is too hard.

Answer 2

I do not believe social anxiety can properly be characterized as such.

To do so implies that the social 'anxiety' is a choice versus a psychological dysfunction.

'Social avoidance' would be a better phrase to say it's similar to 'bourgeois conceit', in my opinion.

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Answer 3

big question

Answer 4

Personally I think it can't, and your professor sounds like a communist. But if you have to write a paper on this or something, then I would say that the relatively constraining social hierarchy and complex systems of social interaction maintained by members of the American upper class (or bourgeois) can create a sense of fear or anxiety towards certain social interactions. The process by which members of the bourgeois interact with each other is, in general, much more complex than the methods of interaction among the working class (proletariat). To put it simply, blue collar people are more "down to earth" than their white collar counterparts.

Again, I don't really believe in any of that, but it makes for a good thesis statement if you are being forced to write about this for college or something.