Sociology Through Emotions

Scott R. Harris, PhD, is a professor of sociology at Saint Louis University. He is the author of An Invitation to the Sociology of Emotions, How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences and, with Kathy Charmaz and Leslie Irvine, The Social Self and Everyday Life: Understanding the World through Symbolic Interactionism. He also co-edited, with Joel Best, Making Sense of Social Problems and co-authored, with Kerry Ferris, Stargazing: Celebrity, Fame, and Social Interaction. He is past editor-in-chief of the journals Symbolic Interaction and Sociology Compass.

Note to InstructorsAcknowledgements

Introduction

Constraints, Agency, and Inequality: Three Ubiquitous Aspects of Society and Emotions

Part I. Socialization and Social Interaction

1. What’s in a Word?
Batja Mesquita

2. How Does It Feel to Be a Star? Identifying Emotions on the Red Carpet
Kerry O. Ferris and Scott R. Harris

Part II. Family

3. Preventive Emotion Work: How Inequalities Are Reproduced in Parent-LGB Child Relationships
Tyler R. Flockhart

4. Emotion Work and Gender Inequality in Transnational Family Life
Sergio Chávez, Robin Paige, and Heather Edelblute

Part III. Crime and Law

5. Can’t Buy Me Love: Gift-Giving Among Members of Criminal Organizations
Shirly Bar-Lev and Michal Morag

6. Objectivity Work as Situated Emotion Management
Stina Bergman Blix and Åsa Wettergren

Part IV. Healthcare

7. Clinical Empathy as Emotional Labor in Medical Work
Alexandra H. Vinson and Kelly Underman

8. “I Can Never Be Too Comfortable”: Race, Gender, and Emotion at the Hospital Bedside
Marci D. Cottingham, Austin H. Johnson, and Rebecca J. Erickson

Part V. Religion

9. How Does Prayer Help Manage Emotions?
Shane Sharp

10. In the Name of Love: White Organizations and Racialized Emotions
Diefendorf Sarah and C. J. Pascoe

Part VI. War, Peace, And Social Movements

11. Examining Emotion as Discourse: Emotion Codes and Presidential Speeches Justifying War
Donileen R. Loseke

12. Combining Emotions: Hope, Anger, Joy, and Love in Israeli Peace Movements
Liv Halperin

Conclusion

Final Thoughts, Caveats, and Recommendations

ReferencesIndex