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Emotional Lives explores the changes in emotional cultures that have taken place during the last half century and continue to affect people's identities today. These changes are driven by the culture of consumerism in contemporary post-industrial society and by the emergence of new ideas about public and private life in a time when media culture generates new forms of social relationships and deep personal attachments to celebrity figures. McCarthy shows that people are drawn to public life, not only for entertainment and pleasure but also for its dramas, for memorializing events like disasters, acts of violence, and victimhood. McCarthy's cultural-sociological approach provides new insights about emotions as 'social things' and reveals how today's mass media is an important force for cultural change, including changes in people's relationships, identities, and emotions.
Table des matières
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.
A propos de l'auteur
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.
Résumé
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.
