86 Pages
by
Routledge
86 Pages
by
Routledge
86 Pages
by
Routledge
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Like any other valued resource, emotions are distributed unequally. Moreover, emotions are a generalized resource because they give people the confidence, or lack of confidence, to secure additional types of resources. Thus, this distribution of emotions roughly corresponds to the shares of others kinds of resources that members of various social classes possess. The level of positive and... Read more
1. Why Are Humans So Emotional? 2. The Dark Side of Emotions 3. The Stratification of Emotions 4. Emotions and Pressures for Societal Integration and Disintegration 5. The Effects of Emotions on Peoples and Societies
Biography
Jonathan H. Turner is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside and University Professor, University of California. He is primarily a general theorist who has sought to develop general scientific theories on all facets of human social organization. He is the author of 35 books and around 200 research articles and chapters. This present book is an effort to extend his more theoretical analyses of human emotions to problems stemming from stratification of societies.
