Overview

The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life. Emotions are 'social things', they are controlled and managed in our everyday lives and transcend the divides between mind and body, nature and culture, structure and action. In this way, they hold a crucial key to our understanding of social processes and can push forward the boundaries of sociological investigation. Yet the dominance of rationality in Western (masculinist) social thought has led to the relative neglect of emotions as 'irrational', private, inner sensations which have been tied to women's 'hysterical bodies'. In this sense, emotions are seen to be the very antithesis of the detached scientific mind and its quest for 'objectivity'. However as the course of human history has testified, crucial implications stem from the separation of reason and feeling. Emotions have fundamental implications for all pertinent sociological themes and issues, in particular, social action and social identity, gender, sexuality and intimacy, the embodiment of emotions across the life-course (from childhood to old age), health and illness, and the social organisation of emotions in the workplace. Unique and timely, Emotions in Social Life acts to consolidate the sociology of emotions as a legitimate and viable field of enquiry. It provides a comprehensive 'state of the art' assessment of the sociology of emotions drawing upon work from scholars of international stature, as well as newer writers in the field. It presents new empirical research in conjunction with innovative and challenging theoretical material, and will be essential reading for students of medical sociology, health psychology as well as gender studies. Gillian Bendelow, University of Warwick, UK, Debra Bone, University of California, USA, Nick Crossley, University of Sheffield, UK, Norman Denzin, Jean Duncombe, Simon Forrest,

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Author:   Gillian Bendelow ,  Simon J Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780415137997

ISBN 10:   0415137993
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   06 November 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Part I Critical perspectivers on emotions 1. The sociology of emotion as a way of seeing 2. Emotion and communicative action: Havermas, linguistic philosophy and existentialism 3. The limitations of cultural constructionism in the study of emotion 4. The sociogenesis of emotions: a historical sociology? Part II The mediation of emotional experience 5. 'Bored and blasé': television, the emotions andf Georg Simmel 6. In search of the inner child: co-dependency and gender in a cyberspace community 7. Emotions, cyberspace and the 'virtual' body: a critical appraisal. Part III Emotions and the body through the life-course 8. Children, emotions and daily life at home and school. 9. 'Shorties, low-lifers, hardnuts and kings': boys, emotions and emobodiment in school 10. Aging and the emotions Part IV Sexuality, initmacy and personal relations 11. Masculinity, violence and emotional life 12. 'Stepford wives' and 'holow men'? Doing emotion work, doing gender and 'authenticity' in intimate heterosexual relationships 13. Changes in the 'lust balance' of sex and love since the sexual revolution: the example in the Netherlands Part V Emotions and Health 14. Emotions, pain and gender 15. Social performances and their discontents: the bio[psychological aspects of dramaturgical stress 16. 'getting the job done': emotion management and cardiopulmonary resuscitation in nursing 17. Emotions in rationalizing organizations: conceptual notes from preofessional nursing in the USA

Reviews

'This volume shows how crucial implications arise from the separation of reason and feeling. It covers critical perpectives on the topic, the mediation of emotional experience, the body and sexuality, intimacy, and the connection between emotions and health.' - Network No 67 August 1998

Author Information

Gillian Bendelow is a lecturer and Simon J. Williams is a Research Fellow, both at the University of Warwick, Coventry.

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