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

• MitwirkendeR: Ahmed, Sara,; Bookman, Sonia,; Craig, Ailsa,; Deri, Jillian,; Doucet, Andrea,; Hunt, Alan,; Katz, Jack,; Kenney, J. Scott,; Lefebvre, Alexandre,; Mauthner, Natasha S.,; Spencer, Dale,; Suski, Laura,; Theodosius, Catherine,; Thoits, Peggy A.,; Walby, Kevin,; White, Melanie,
• HerausgeberIn: Hunt, Alan,; Spencer, Dale,; Walby, Kevin ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 5 tables; 1 figure

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Introduction
• PART I. CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
• Introduction
• 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
• Introduction
• 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