Sociology Through Emotions

A Concise Reader
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-84058-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Offering an accessible and intriguing look at emotions in society, Sociology Through Emotions collects together contemporary qualitative research that illuminates many of sociology’s central concepts and topics, from culture, socialization, and inequality to family, crime, healthcare, religion, and social movements.

This book appeals to instructors who want to highlight the social factors that shape emotions as well as the impact of emotions on social life. It is an attractive supplement for courses on introduction to sociology, self and society, social psychology, and others focused on interaction, culture, and meaning making.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Scott R.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note to Instructors
Acknowledgements 

Introduction

Constraints, Agency, and Inequality: Three Ubiquitous Aspects of Society and Emotions

Part I. Socialization and Social Interaction

1. What’s in a Word?
Batja Mesquita 

2. How Does It Feel to Be a Star? Identifying Emotions on the Red Carpet
Kerry O. Ferris and Scott R. Harris 

Part II. Family

3. Preventive Emotion Work: How Inequalities Are Reproduced in Parent-LGB Child Relationships
Tyler R. Flockhart

4. Emotion Work and Gender Inequality in Transnational Family Life
Sergio Chávez, Robin Paige, and Heather Edelblute 

Part III. Crime and Law

5. Can’t Buy Me Love: Gift-Giving Among Members of Criminal Organizations
Shirly Bar-Lev and Michal Morag

6. Objectivity Work as Situated Emotion Management
Stina Bergman Blix and Åsa Wettergren

Part IV. Healthcare

7. Clinical Empathy as Emotional Labor in Medical Work
Alexandra H. Vinson and Kelly Underman

8. “I Can Never Be Too Comfortable”: Race, Gender, and Emotion at the Hospital Bedside
Marci D. Cottingham, Austin H. Johnson, and Rebecca J. Erickson

Part V. Religion

9. How Does Prayer Help Manage Emotions?
Shane Sharp

10. In the Name of Love: White Organizations and Racialized Emotions
Diefendorf Sarah and C. J. Pascoe 

Part VI. War, Peace, And Social Movements

11. Examining Emotion as Discourse: Emotion Codes and Presidential Speeches Justifying War
Donileen R. Loseke

12. Combining Emotions: Hope, Anger, Joy, and Love in Israeli Peace Movements
Liv Halperin

Conclusion

Final Thoughts, Caveats, and Recommendations

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Scott R. Harris, PhD, is a professor of sociology at Saint Louis University. He is the author of An Invitation to the Sociology of Emotions, How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences, and, with Kathy Charmaz and Leslie Irvine, The Social Self and Everyday Life: Understanding the World through Symbolic Interactionism.

He also co-edited, with Joel Best, Making Sense of Social Problems and co-authored, with Kerry Ferris, Stargazing: Celebrity, Fame, and Social Interaction. He is past editor-in-chief of the journals Symbolic Interaction and Sociology Compass.