The Sociology of Emotions
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 8/10/2011
EAN 9780521612227, ISBN10: 0521612225
Paperback, 368 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
All social relations involve emotional responses, from the simplest face-to-face encounter through the mobilization of social movements to the commitments that individuals develop for culture and society. The social world is thus dependent upon the arousal of emotions, and equally significant conflict and change in societies is ultimately driven by emotional arousal. Thus, it is important to understand how human emotions influence, and are influenced by, the social world. This understanding takes us into the sociology of emotions that has emerged as a distinct area of inquiry over the last thirty years.
1. Conceptualizing emotions sociologically
2. Dramaturgical and cultural theorizing on emotions
3. Ritual theorizing on emotions
4. Symbolic interactionist theorizing on emotions
5. Symbolic interactionist theorizing on emotions with psychoanalytic elements
6. Exchange theorizing on emotions
7. Structural theorizing on emotions
8. Evolutionary theorizing on emotions
9. Prospects for a sociology of emotions.