Emotions in Digital Interactions
Ethnopsychologies of Angels' Mothers in Online Bereavement Communities
Authors: Rafanell, Irene, Sawicka, Maja
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Combining the conceptual tools of interactionist and social constructionist positions, this book presents an in-depth investigation of emotions in digital interactions. Through the central case study of online bereavement communities for women who have suffered perinatal loss, this volume highlights the significance of affective sanctioning as constitutive of group dynamics and practice. The authors chart the emergence of a new ethnopsychology of motherhood—the category of ‘Angels’ Mothers’—arising from the localized practices of a community whose experience of grief is otherwise disenfranchised. Through their detailed theoretical exploration of the centrality of micro-situational dynamics, alongside the rich empirical illustration of collectively shared feeling rules and norms, Rafanell and Sawicka develop a naturalistic approach to the analysis of empirical data, providing insights for policy-making interventions.
- About the authors
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Irene Rafanell is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of Scotland, UK, where she teaches on gender theory, sociology of the body, social theory and theories of power. She is an Honorary Fellow and a member of the Center for Research on Families and Relationships of the School of Social and Political Studies at Edinburgh University, UK. Her work explores the connections between social theory, social constructionism, sociology of knowledge and the body. Her book Sexed and Gendered Bodies as Social Institutions will be published by Palgrave. She is currently developing research on digital sociology and sociology of emotions analyzing digital communicative interactions.
Maja Sawicka is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology of Warsaw University, Poland. In her work, she focuses on emotions perceived as social phenomena, investigating the links between culture, interactional group processes, and individual emotional experiences. She has a wide teaching experience in the field of Social Psychology and Qualitative Research Methods. She is the author of Emotions in Interactions in the Contemporary Polish Society (2018, in Polish).
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-8
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What Counts as Social Reality?
Pages 11-18
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Emotions as Products of the Social: Extrinsic Accounts
Pages 19-25
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Emotions as Constitutive Methods: An Intrinsic Account of the Social
Pages 27-47
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Emergence of Collectives as Status Groups
Pages 49-52
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Emotions in Digital Interactions
- Book Subtitle
- Ethnopsychologies of Angels' Mothers in Online Bereavement Communities
- Authors
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- Irene Rafanell
- Maja Sawicka
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-21998-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-21998-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-21997-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 120
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
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