Grundlegende Pramisse der Soziologie der Emotionen ist es, dass Gefuhle fur alle Aspekte des Sozialen relevant sind. Wenn Emotionen von Individuen und soziale Kontexte in einem Wechselverhaltnis zueinander stehen, stellt sich die Frage, welche Formen sozialer Verknupfungen so konstituiert werden. Jenseits ihres verbindenden Potentials gilt es dabei insbesondere, Ambivalenzen der von Emotionen begrundeten Sozialitat in den Blick zu nehmen. Inkludierende und exkludierende Aspekte von Emotionen konnen dabei eng miteinander verwoben sein und sogar Teil ein und derselben sozialen Beziehung...

Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural and mixed approaches. Bringing together the emerging lines of inquiry, it lays foundations for an overdue methodological debate. The volume offers entrancing short essays, richly illustrated with examples and anecdotes, that provide basic knowledge about how to pursue emotions in texts, interviews, observations, spoken language, visuals, historical documents and surveys. The contributors are respectful of those...

Empirically, this book is a case-study analysis of dissolution processes in German AIDS organizations. Indeed, why is it that civic organizers start out with a commitment to a cause but end up dissolving their organization? This question is exactly what Kleres seeks to tackle within The Social Organization of Disease.

Focusing on the emotional bases of dissolved German AIDS organizations to develop a typology of civic action and organizing, Kleres presents a perspective on non-profit organizations that analyses organizational development through the emotional sense...