Emotions Matter : : A Relational Approach to Emotions / / ed. by Dale Spencer, Kevin Walby, Alan Hunt.

The sociology of emotions has recently undergone a renaissance, raising new questions for the social sciences: How should we define and study emotions? How are emotions related to perennial sociological debates about structure, power, and agency? Emotions Matter brings together leading international...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2012
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 5 tables; 1 figure
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Contributors --
Introduction --
PART I. CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS --
2. Emotion's Crucible --
3. Sociable Happiness --
4. 'Feeling a Feeling' in Emotion Management --
5. Illegitimate Pain: Introducing a Concept and a Research Agenda --
6. Religion within the Bounds of Emotion Alone: Bergson and Kant --
7. Humanitarianism as a Politics of Emotion --
8. The Civilizing Process and Emotional Life: The Intensification and Hollowing Out of Contemporary Emotions --
9. Emotions In/and Knowing --
PART II. EMOTIONS AND EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS --
10. How Emotions Matter: Objects, Organizations, and the Emotional Climate of a Mass Spectrometry Laboratory --
11. Emotional Deviance and Mental Disorder --
12. Polyamory or Polyagony? Jealousy in Open Relationships --
13. Feeling Cosmopolitan: Experiential Brands and Urban Cosmopolitan Sensibilities --
14. Autistic Autobiographies and More-than- Human Emotional Geographies --
References --
Index
Summary:The sociology of emotions has recently undergone a renaissance, raising new questions for the social sciences: How should we define and study emotions? How are emotions related to perennial sociological debates about structure, power, and agency? Emotions Matter brings together leading international scholars to build on and extend sociological understandings of emotions.Moving beyond reductionist approaches that frame emotions as idiosyncratic states of mind, the scholars in this collection conceptualize emotions as the experience of social relations. Empirical and theoretical chapters demonstrate how emotions relate to sociological theories of interaction, the body, gender, and communication. Pushing the boundaries of sociology and stimulating debate for related fields, Emotions Matter offers diverse relational approaches that illustrate the crucial importance of emotions to the sociological imagination.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781442699274
DOI:10.3138/9781442699274
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Dale Spencer, Kevin Walby, Alan Hunt.