Research Agendas in the Sociology of Emotions

Theodore D. Kemper is Professor of Sociology, St. John's University, and is one of the founders of the Sociology of Emotions sub-discipline. He has served on the board, and is a member of, the International Society for Research in Emotions, and of the Sociology of Emotions section of the American Sociological Association.

• PART ONEIntroduction 1. Themes and Variations in the Sociology of EmotionsTheodore D. KemperPART TWOEmotions and Social Macro Processes 2. Stratification, Emotional Energy, and the Transient EmotionsRandall Collins 3. Affective Maximization: A New Macro-Theory in the Sociology of EmotionsMichael HammondPART THREEPolitical and Gender Economy of Emotion s 4. On Understanding Emotion: The Interpretive-Cultural AgendaNorman K. Denzin 5. Ideology and Emotion Management: A Perspective and Path for Future ResearchArlie Russell HochschildPART SIXSocial Construction and Management of Emotions 6. Social Structural Effects on EmotionsSteven L. Gordon 7. Emotional Deviance: Research AgendasPeggy A. ThoitsPART FIVEEmotions and Social Micro Processes 8. Social Relations and Emotions: A Structural ApproachTheodore D. Kemper 9. Emotion as the Confirmation and Disconfirmation of Identity: An Affect Control ModelLynn Smith-Lovin 10. Affect Control Model Technical AppendixDavid R. Heise 11. Socialization of Emotions: Pride and Shame as Causal AgentsThomas J. Scheff 12. Emotions and Micropolitics in Everyday Life: Some Patterns and Paradoxes of "Place"Candace Clark Contributors

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