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Author:   Alessandro Pratesi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9783032250575

ISBN 10:   3032250579
Pages:   441
Publication Date:   05 June 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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PART I _ Defining emotions from different disciplinary perspectives.- Introduction.- Defining emotions from different disciplinary perspectives.- Feeling Modernity: the early theorisations on emotions from the classics of sociology.- Conceptualising emotions sociologically: contemporary theories on emotions.- Between Positivist and Constructionist approaches, micro- and macro- levels of analysis.- Emotions in different historical and cultural contexts.- Love Studies and Black Feminist Theory.- Rethinking the sociological relevance of emotions in light of recent social and political phenomena.- PART II _ The theoretical and political relevance of emotions: research areas.- Emotions and Social Control: Shame, Humiliation, Embarrassment, and Conformity.- Emotions and Politics: The Social Construction of Emotions in the Public Sphere.- Emotions and Social Class.- Emotions and Capitalism.- Emotions and Violence.- Emotions, Technologies, and Media.- Emotions, Relationships, and Intimacies.- Emotions, Citizenship, and Social Change.- Concluding Thoughts: Future Prospects.

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Alessandro Pratesi is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Florence, Italy. His research interests include the sociology of emotions, care, relationships and intimacies, social inclusion, and citizenship. He is the author of Doing Care, Doing Citizenship. Towards a Micro-situated and Emotion-based Model of Social Inclusion (2018, Palgrave Macmillan).

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