Emotions matter a relational approach to emotions /

Emotions matter a relational approach to emotions / edited by Dale Spencer, Kevin Walby, and Alan Hunt. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (xii, 326 pages)

"The chapters comprising this edited volume originate from a workshop organized at Carleton University in May of 2009"--Introd.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Chapter 1: For a Relational Approach to Emotions -- Section I: Conceptual Issues in the Sociology of Emotions. Chapter 2: Emotion's Crucible -- Chapter 3: Sociable Happiness -- Chapter 4: 'Feeling a Feeling' in Emotion Management -- Chapter 5: Illegitimate Pain: Introducing a Concept and a Research Agenda -- Chapter 6: Religion Within the Bounds of Emotion Alone: Bergson and Kant -- Chapter 7: Humanitarianism as a Politics of Emotion -- Chapter 8: The Civilizing Process and Emotional Life: The Intensification and Hollowing Out of Contemporary Emotions -- Chapter 9: Emotions In/and Knowing -- Section II: Emotions and Empirical Investigations. Chapter 10: How Emotions Matter: Objects, Organizations and the Emotional Climate of a Mass Spectrometry Laboratory -- Chapter 11: Emotional Deviance and Mental Disorder -- Chapter 12: Polyamory or Polyagony? Jealousy in Open Relationships -- Chapter 13: Feeling Cosmopolitan: Experiential Brands and Urban Cosmopolitan Sensibilities -- Chapter 14: Autistic Autobiographies and More-than-Human Emotional Geographies.

Pushing the boundaries of sociology and stimulating debate for related fields, Emotions Matter offers diverse relational approaches that illustrate the crucial importance of emotions to the sociological imagination.



9781442699274


Emotions--Sociological aspects.
Emotions--Social aspects.
Social psychology.


Electronic Books.

HM1033 / .E468 2012