1st Edition
Emotion and Social Structures The Affective Foundations of Social Order
By Christian von Scheve
Copyright 2013
180 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The past decades have seen significant advances in the sociological understanding of human emotion. Sociology has shown how culture and society shape our emotions and how emotions contribute to micro- and macro-social processes. At the same time, the behavioral sciences have made progress in understanding emotion at the level of the individual mind and body.
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Introduction. 1. Self, Society and Emotion 2. Socially Structured Emotions 3. The Affective Structure of Social Action 4. The Affective Structure of Social Interaction. Concluding Remarks. References
Biography
Christian von Scheve is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion," Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on the sociology of emotion, culture and cognition, social inequality, and social psychology.
