Emotions and sociology /
Contributor(s): Barbalet, J. M.
Series: Sociological review monographs.Publisher: Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub./Socological Review, 2002Description: 175 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1405105577 (alk. paper); 9781405105576:; 9781405105576 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Emotions -- Sociological aspects | Emotions -- Social aspects | Social structure | Social interaction | Social psychologyDDC classification: 302Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 302 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0069349 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : why emotions are crucial / Jack Barbalet -- The two traditions in the sociology of emotions / Chris Shilling -- Secure states : towards a political sociology of emotion / Mabel Berezin -- Predicting emotions in groups : some lessons from September 11 / Theodore D. Kemper -- Emotions and economics / Jocelyn Pixley -- Corporate emotions and emotions in corporations / Helena Flam -- Managing the emotions of competition and recognition in academia / Charlotte Bloch -- Science and emotions / Jack Barbalet -- Complex emotions : relations, feelings and images in emotional experience / Ian Burkitt.
Traditional sociological inquiry tends to downplay the importance of emotions. This volume shows what the discipline looks like when emotions are taken seriously. Each of the chapters focuses on a particular subfield, such as political sociology, economic sociology, or the sociology of science.