Full Description
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the field of the Sociology of Emotions, incorporating sociological, feminist and cultural perspectives.
Structured around three dimensions - conceptualisation, theory and analysis of emotions - it provides new insights into the field, with a particular focus on contemporary social issues such as loneliness, depression, confidence, consumption, class, intimacy and sexuality.
The book examines the language of emotions, looking at macro and micro framing of emotions in modernity, emotional labour, public emotions, passionate emotions, melancholic emotions, masculinity and emotions, love, intimacy and emotions. It delves into both positive and negative emotions such as happiness, anger, fear and sadness.
The book will be essential reading for researchers and students seeking a current and interdisciplinary resource covering a wide range of international material in the field of Sociology of Emotions.
Contents
Introduction
1. The Language of Emotions: Concepts and Perspectives on the Emotions
2. The History of Emotions: The Emotions in Modernity
3. Privatized Emotions: Emotional Complexity in Late Modernity
4. Emotional Intersections: Gender in Emotions
5. Emotional Capital and Emotional Commodities
6. Positive and Negative Emotions
7. Emotions, Love and Intimacy
Bibliography
Index
