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Interactionism and the Sociology of Emotions

Italian Sociological Review, 2019

The aim of this article is to draw attention to the close relationship that exists between interactionism and the sociology of emotions. Not only was the latter born (also) under the sign of interactionism, it has developed essentially through two perspectives, the positivist and the interactionist, that consider interaction a more or less fundamental dimension of the emotions as sociologically understood. It is the interactionist perspective that emphasizes its relevance, however, as demonstrated by two specific approaches which can be traced back to that perspective, the symbolic interactionist approach as such and the dramaturgical-cultural approach. Since it holds together the different ‘ingredients’ of the emotions, namely biology, culture and cognitive processes, the interactionist perspective is to be preferred for the purpose of adequately understanding them.

Notes for a Critique to the Program of the Sociology of Emotions

Konfrontasi: Jurnal Kultural, Ekonomi dan Perubahan Sosial

This work elaborates a critique of the current program of the sociology of emotions that is located in the conceptual space around the definition of society. This impacts on the good development of concepts such as social interaction and cognition, fundamental to think about the role of the social in the emotional and emotional life of the subjects, in turn affecting the development of the sociology of emotions program which currently results incomplete and insufficient to explain the relationship between emotion, individual and society.

Sociological Theories of Human Emotions

Annual Review of Sociology, 2006

Over the past three decades, five general theoretical approaches to understanding the dynamics of human emotions have emerged in sociology: dramaturgical theories, symbolic interactionist theories, interaction ritual theories, power and status theories, and exchange theories. We review each of these approaches. Despite the progress made by these theories, several issues remain unresolved: the nature of emotions, feeling, and affect; the degree to which emotions are biologically based or socially constructed; the gap between social psychological theories on emotions and macrostructural theorizing; and the relatively narrow range of emotions theorized, coupled with an equally narrow focus on the structural and cultural conditions producing these emotions.

An historical sociology of emotion

Emotions in Social Life: Social Theories and …, 1998

This chapter will draw on the work of Norbert Elias and Marjorie Morgan in order to place our understanding of emotion within a socio-historical context. It focuses on Elias's and Morgan's work on emotional and social codes in France and England between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Attention is paid to the implications of this work for our current theorising around emotional labour, informalisation, and gender and emotion. Some critical consideration is also given to limitations in the work of Elias, particularly in regard to the metanarratival ambitions evinced in his work. This chapter will attempt to further our understanding of emotion through a consideration of the development of emotion codes from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century in France and England, drawing particularly on the early work of Norbert Elias (e.g. , and that of the social historian, Marjorie Morgan. Such emotion codes will be explored through the historical analysis of their inscription within the social practices of civility, manners and etiquette. The argument to develop this kind of analysis follows directly from that supportive of social/cultural constructionist perspectives, and their emphasis upon the plasticity of emotion and its lack of an essential universal vocabulary. Once one acknowledges that emotion is socially constructed one is also implicitly drawing attention to the historical, based on the simple argument that the social and cultural are historically formed . In other words, how can we really claim to know the social or the cultural if we are inattentive to the relations surrounding their development? More specifically in relation to this book, how can we aim to understand contemporary issues in emotion without exploring the historical context in which they have evolved?

Sociological Reflexivity and the Sociology of Emotions

Sociology and Anthropology

Social theory is characterized by great creativity with regard to the formulation of categories and concepts that allow for the development of methodologies and social descriptions. Therefore, it is not surprising that in the past fifty years sociological reflexivity as a methodological element and research tool has become a fruitful and significant tool for social analysis. Sociological reflexivity plays a role in analysing the limits and conditions that shape and influence both sociology's object of study and the sociological researcher.The inward turn that sociology has made through sociological reflexivity leads us to new understandings of social action and opens up new avenues of study, as is apparent in the sociology of emotions developed by the American sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. This article analyses the concepts of classical sociology that open up to sociological reflexivity and, consequently, the importance that this concept implies for the emergence of the sociology of emotions as a subfield of reflexive sociology.

IN SEARCH OF A SOCIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR THE EMOTIONAL TURN

SOCIOLOGIA, PROBLEMAS E PRÁTICAS, 2017

The overwhelming presence of the emotions both in science and contemporary social life begs for an explanation from the point of view of the same social theory. Even though the works of Hochschild, Scheff or Illouz contain indications that allow for a theoretical link between the contributions of the sociology of emotions and the theories of late modernity advanced by contemporary social theorists, this link has not yet been explicitly developed in the literature. The purpose of this article is to call attention on this link by highlighting the role of emotions as sites of social reflexivity. Resumo A presença massiva das emoções tanto na ciência como na vida social contemporâneas exige uma explicação do ponto de vista da mesma teoria social. Embora as obras de Hochschild, Scheff ou Illouz contenham indicações que permitem um enlace teórico entre as contribuições da sociologia das emoções e as teorias da modernidade tardia avançadas por teóricos sociais contemporâneos, tal ligação não se tem desenvolvido ainda de forma explícita. O objeto deste artigo é chamar a atenção sobre esta conexão, destacando o papel das emoções como lugares de reflexividade social. Résumé La présence massive des émotions tant dans la science que dans la vie sociale contemporaine exige une explication du point de vue de la même théorie sociale. Bien que les travaux de Hochschild, Scheff et Illouz contiennent des indications qui permettent d'établir un lien théorique entre les contributions de la sociologie des émotions et les théories de la modernité tardive avancées par des théoriciens sociaux contemporains, ce lien n'a pas encore été développé de façon explicite. Cet article attire l'attention sur cette connexion, en mettant en avant le rôle des émotions comme lieux de réflexivité sociale.

Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, 2006

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