Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions

✍ Scribed by Dale Spencer (editor); Kevin Walby (editor); Alan Hunt (editor)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
PART I. CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
Introduction
2. Emotion’s Crucible
3. Sociable Happiness
4. ‘Feeling a Feeling’ in Emotion Management
5. Illegitimate Pain: Introducing a Concept and a Research Agenda
6. Religion within the Bounds of Emotion Alone: Bergson and Kant
7. Humanitarianism as a Politics of Emotion
8. The Civilizing Process and Emotional Life: The Intensification and Hollowing Out of Contemporary Emotions
9. Emotions In/and Knowing
PART II. EMOTIONS AND EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Introduction
10. How Emotions Matter: Objects, Organizations, and the Emotional Climate of a Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
11. Emotional Deviance and Mental Disorder
12. Polyamory or Polyagony? Jealousy in Open Relationships
13. Feeling Cosmopolitan: Experiential Brands and Urban Cosmopolitan Sensibilities
14. Autistic Autobiographies and More-than- Human Emotional Geographies
References
Index