Emotions matter : a relational approach to emotions
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
xii, 326 pages ; 24 cm
9781442644137, 9781442612532, 1442644133, 1442612533
754318731
Introduction / Kevin Walby, Dale Spencer, and Alan Hunt
Conceptual issues in the sociology of emotions
Emotion's crucible / Jack Katz
Sociable happiness / Srar Ahmed
'Feeling a feeling' in emotion management / Catherine Theodosius
Illegitimate pain: introducing a concept and a research agenda / J. Scott
Religion within the bounds of emotion alone: Bergson and Kant / Alexandre Lefebvre and Melanie White
Humanitarianism as a politics of emotion / Laura Suski
The civilizing process and emotional life: the intensification and hollowing out of contemporary emotions / Alan Hunt
Emotions in/and knowing / Andrea Doucet and Natasha S Mautherner
Emotions and empirical investigations. How emotions matter: objects, organizations and the emotional climate of a mass spectrometry laboratory / Kevin Walby and Dale Spencer
Emotional deviance and mental disorder / Peggy A Thoits
Polyamory or polyagony? jealousy in open relationships / Jillian Deri
Feeling cosmopolitan: experiential brands and urban cosmopolitan sensibilities / Sonia Bookman
Autistic autobiographies and more-than-human emotional geographies / Joyce Davidson and Mick Smith
References
"The chapters comprising this edited volume originate from a workshop organized at Carleton University in May of 2009"--Introduction