Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality

ISBN-13: 9780521585453 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 264 str.

Thomas J. Scheff

Opis

In his important new book, Thomas Scheff offers an innovative approach to researching human behavior that relates the smallest parts of social interaction to the greatest wholes of social structure. These are the details and connections usually found only in the finest novels, but Scheff combines the insights of the humanities and social sciences to capture the same evocative details of sight, sound and context, better to understand what he calls "human reality." He puts a fresh emphasis on the importance of emotions in the social bond, and describes in newly subtle ways the outer and inner lives of persons in real life, such as inner city children, and in fiction, such as Jane Austen's heroines. By closely observing the significance of words and gestures, in the context in which they occur, he is able to illuminate the connection between people's lives and the society in which they live.

Recenzje

"[Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality: Part/Whole Analysis] is an ambitious and comprehensive enterprise....the book has fems of insight and connection well worth discovering." Joy Charlton, American Journal of Sociology

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Theory and Method: 1. Part/whole morphology: single case and comparative methods; 2. The limits of literary analyses of texts; Part II. Generating Theory: The Social Bond: 3. Punishment, child development, and the crime; 4. Boy's talk, girl's talk: a theory of social integration; 5. Origins of the First World War: integrating small parts and great wholes; Part III. Generating Theory: Emotions and Conflict: 6. Gender wars: love and conflict in Much Ado About Nothing; 7. Microanalysis of discourse: the case of Martha Johnson and her therapist; 8. Conflict in family systems; 9. Conclusion: integrating the human sciences.