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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 the family, crime, healthcare, religion, and social movements.
List of 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
About the author
Scott R. Harris, PhD, is a professor of sociology at Saint Louis University. He is the author of
An Invitation to the Sociology of Emotions,
How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences, and, with Kathy Charmaz and Leslie Irvine,
The Social Self and Everyday Life: Understanding the World through Symbolic Interactionism.
He also co-edited, with Joel Best,
Making Sense of Social Problems and co-authored, with Kerry Ferris,
Stargazing: Celebrity, Fame, and Social Interaction. He is past editor-in-chief of the journals
Symbolic Interaction and
Sociology Compass.
Summary
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 the family, crime, healthcare, religion, and social movements.
