Overview
- Emotion is the response a individual has in response to situations - usually of a social origin (i.e. he insulted me so now I am upset).
- In sociological terms, this includes not only the existence of social stimuli that aids in the prediction of emotion states, but also a cognitive appraisal of emotion- relevant social preconditions and states - meaning that an individual evaluates the social environment and responds accordingly.
- The first reference work to review, critique, and discuss the future research of the sociology of emotions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Basic Processes
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Front Matter
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Theories
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
For almost thirty years, sociologists have increasingly theorized about and conducted research on human emotions. Surprisingly, it was not until the 1970s that the sociology of emotions emerged as a coherent field of inquiry. What makes this late date surprising is that it is now obvious that human behavior, interaction, and organization are driven by emotions. It was an immense oversight for emotions to be de-emphasized in sociological theorizing and research for most of its 175 year history. Since the 1970s, however, the study of emotions has accelerated and is now at the forefront of sociological analysis.
This book is designed to bring the reader up to date on the theory and research traditions that have proliferated in the analysis of human emotions. Key figures who have carried the sociology of emotions to its current level of prominence review their own work and the work of others who have made contributions to a particular approach to the study of emotions. The outcome is a comprehensive book that serves as a primer on the cutting edge of sociological work in what is obviously a key dynamic in human affairs.
The first section of the book addresses the range of emotions and how they can be classified, the neurological underpinnings of emotions, and the effect of gender on emotions. The second section reviews the prominent sociological theories of emotions, including theories emphasizing power and status, rituals, identity and self, psychoanalytic dynamics, exchange, expectation states, and evolution.While there is little integration among these theories, this state of affairs will not last forever. The third section addresses theory and research on specific emotions such as love, jealousy and envy, empathy, sympathy, anger, grief, and the moral emotions. While this list does not exhaust the range of human feeling, they are central emotions that drive human behavior, interaction, and social organization. The last section explores howthe study of emotions has added new insight into other subfields within sociology such as the study of the workplace, health, and social movements. These chapters illustrate how the sociology of emotions can provide new research and theory for the large numbers of specialties within sociology.
Although no book can completely cover a field, even a relatively new one like the sociology of emotions, this Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions comes close to being comprehensive. The reader will come away with a greater appreciation for how far the sociology of emotions has developed and prospered over the last thirty years.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions
Editors: Jan E. Stets, Jonathan H. Turner
Series Title: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30715-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-30713-8Published: 08 August 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7936-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-30715-2Published: 25 February 2007
Series ISSN: 1389-6903
Series E-ISSN: 2542-839X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 657
Topics: Sociology, general, Personality and Social Psychology