Full Description
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.
Contents
Note to InstructorsAcknowledgements
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
ReferencesIndex