Research Handbook on the Sociology of Emotion

Edited by Helena Flam, Institute of Sociology, Leipzig University, Germany

• Contents:Introduction to the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Emotion 1Helena FlamPART I THEORIES OF EMOTIONS: GRAND, MIDDLE-RANGEAND MICRO‒MACRO1 Emotional self-alienation and institutions: a Marxian approach toemotion and alienation in employment agencies and society 39Ian Burkitt2 Emotions and institutions in Simmel’s relational program: money, state,and nation 56Olga Sabido Ramos3 Norbert Elias, the ‘figurational school’ and the sociology of emotions 74Helmut Kuzmics4 History of the sociology of emotions: comments on hindrances andchallenges to its development 92Katharina ScherkePART II EMOTIONS IN INSTITUTIONS, POLITICAL REGIMESAND COMMUNITIES5 National emotions 112Yuval Feinstein6 Emotions and state power: towards the ‘emotional state’ 129Jonathan G. Heaney7 Emotions and political regimes 152Monika Verbalyte and Jogilė Ulinskaitė8 Integrating rationality and emotion in legal institutions 174Stina Bergman Blix and Åsa Wettergren9 Feminist questions, emotional labor, and the legal profession: researchon corporate litigators, defense lawyers, law students, and paralegals 199Jennifer L. Pierce10 Sociological issues in educational research on emotion and affect in theGlobal North 215Michalinos Zembylas11 Social studies of emotions and education in Latin America and Spain 235Mariana Nobile12 Remembered and retrieved: on emotions in organizations 252Helena Flam13 Doing family and intimacy at a distance: implications for theory andsocial change 274Alessandro Pratesi14 Emotions and digital technology in transnational families 294Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain15 Migration, institutions and emotions 313Marina Ariza16 What emotions teach us about religion: sociological approaches and the“affective turn” 330N. Yasemin Ural and Marian Burchardt17 War and the military 357Helmut Kuzmics18 Emotions in international relations 381Maéva Clément and Simon Koschut19 Parliamentary assemblies and emotions 401Rosa Sanchez SalgadoConclusion to the Sociology of Emotion 416Helena Flam

‘In this exciting new Handbook, Helena Flam draws together innovative research from a variety of intellectual traditions, and focuses on one of the many social “spinning tops” of human life. A brilliant collection designed to inspire upcoming generations of scholars.’