This major theoretical work takes existing work on the emotions in significantly new
directions. It gives a comprehensive account of emotions, beginning with general …

Within sociology, the study of emotions is a comparatively recent field of specialization, first
emerging in its modern form in the 1970s (Heise, 1979; Hochschild, 1979; Kemper, 1978) …

There is no area of social psychology that does not involve emotions. Not only has social
psychology contributed enormously to theory and research on the nature of emotions, it also …

Most topics studied by social psychologists involve emotion in some way. Consider how
cognitive dissonance is motivated by anxiety about self-esteem, or how conformity is …

Unique in its approach, Invitation to the Sociology of Emotions treats neophytes as its
primary audience, giving students a brief, but thorough, introduction to the sociology of …

This book showcases new research and theory about the way in which the social
environment shapes, and is shaped by, emotion. The book has three sections, each of which …

In this book leading sociologists of emotions present their research agendas for work that
promises to shape the study of emotions well into the next decade. The essays represent the …

Recent work in the sociology of emotions has gone beyond the development of concepts
and broad perspectives to elaboration of theory and some empirical research. More work …

This chapter begins with a discussion of socially emergent properties of emotion that
transcend psychological or physiological explanation. It distinguishes emotion as relatively …

All social relations involve emotional responses, from the simplest face-to-face encounter
through the mobilization of social movements to the commitments that individuals develop …