Emotional Lives - Dramas of Identity in an Age of Mass Media

Emotional Lives offers a cultural study of emotions in public life, and the role of the mass media in shaping our emotions and identities.

List of contents

1. Cultural sociology and the study of emotions; 2. Emotions and modern identity; 3. Emotional sites of death and destruction; 4. Mass emotions in an age of mass media; 5. Afterword, writing and thinking about emotions today.

About the author

E. Doyle McCarthy is Professor of Sociology at Fordham University, New York. She has worked and published in the fields of the sociology of knowledge and emotion studies. She serves on the editorial board of La Critica Sociologia, an international journal in the social sciences, and was previously the senior editor of the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. She was elected chair of the Emotions Section of the American Sociological Association, and served on the executive committee of the International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE) from 2004 to 2007.

Summary

Emotional Lives offers a cultural study of the growing importance of people's emotions in public life, and the role of the mass media in shaping people's relationships, identities, and emotions. The author draws examples from leisure, sports, entertainment, politics, and today's public forms of grief and mourning.

Product details

• Authors: E Doyle McCarthy, E. Doyle Mccarthy, E. Doyle (Fordham University Mccarthy, McCarthy E. Doyle
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780521526333
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52633-3
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction; Studies in Emotion and Social; Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction; Studies in Emotion and Social
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Psychology: emotions, Social, group or collective psychology