Emotion and Social Structures: The Affective Foundations of Social Order

ISBN-13: 9780415678773 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 180 str.

Christian Von Scheve

Opis

This volume offers a novel theoretical account of emotion and social order. It argues that affect and emotion - in addition to well established concepts like norms and rationality - are key to understanding the linkages between social action and social structure.

Spis treści

Introduction.  1. Self, Society and Emotion  2. Socially Structured Emotions  3. The Affective Structure of Social Action  4. The Affective Structure of Social Interaction.  Concluding Remarks.  References

O autorze

Christian von Scheve is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion," Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on the sociology of emotion, culture and cognition, social inequality, and social psychology.