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.
This volume offers a novel theoretical account of emotion and social order. It argues that affect and emotion - in addition to well established concep...
Although collective emotions have a long tradition in scientific inquiry, for instance in mass psychology and the sociology of rituals and social movements, their importance for individuals and the social world has never been more obvious than in the past decades. The Arab Spring revolution, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and mass gatherings at music festivals or mega sports events clearly show the impact collective emotions have both in terms of driving conflict and in uniting people. But these examples only show the most obvious and evident forms of collective emotions. Others are more...
Although collective emotions have a long tradition in scientific inquiry, for instance in mass psychology and the sociology of rituals and social move...
