Emotions in Social Life

The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life as they hold the key to our understanding of social processes and sociological investigation. First published in 1997, Emotions in Social Life consolidates the sociology of emotions as a legitimate and viable field of enquiry. It provides a comprehensive assessment of the sociology of emotions using work from scholars of international stature, as well as newer writers in the field. It presents new empirical research in conjunction with innovative and challenging theoretical material, and will be essential reading for students of sociology, health psychology, anthropology and gender studies.

Gillian Bendelow is a lecturer and Simon J. Williams is a Research Fellow, both at the University of Warwick, Coventry.

Introduction. Emotions in Social Life: Mapping the Sociological Terrain Simon Williams and Gillian Bendelow Section 1: Critical Perspectives on Emotions 1. The Sociology of Emotion as a Way of Seeing Arlie Russell Hochschild 2. Emotion and Communicative Action: Habermas, Linguistic Philosophy and Existentialism Nick Crossley 3. The Limitations of Cultural Constructionism in the Study of Emotion Margot Lyon 4. The Sociogenesis of Emotion: an Historical Sociology? Tim Newton Section 2: The Mediation of Emotional Experience 5. Bored and Blase: Television, the Emotions and Georg Simmel Keith Tester 6. In Search of the Inner Child: Co-Dependence and Gender in a Cyberspace Community Norman Denzin 7. Emotions, Cyberspace and the 'Virtual' Body: a Critical Appraisal Simon J Williams Section 3: Emotions and the Body through the Life Course 8. Children, Emotion and Daily Life through the Life Course Berry Mayall 9.'Shorties, Low-Lifers, Hardnuts and Kings':Boys and the transformation of emotions in school Shirley Prendergast and Simon Forrest 10. Ageing and Emotion, Mike Hepworth Section 4: Sexuality, Intimacy and Personal Relationships 11. Masculinity and Emotional Life Rejection, Fear and Intimacy Victor J. Seidler 12.'Stepford Wives' and 'Hollow Men': doing emotion work, doing gender and 'authenticity' in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships Jean Duncombe and Dennis Marsden 13. Changes in the 'Lustbalance' of Sex and Love since the Sexual Revolution: the Example of the Netherlands Cas Wouters Section 5: Emotions and Health 14. Pain, Emotions and Gender Gillian Bendelow and Simon J. Williams 15. Social Performances and their Discontents: the Biopsychosocial Aspects of Dramaturgical Stress Peter E.S.Freund 16.'Getting the Job Done': Emotion Management and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Nursing Liz Meerabeau and Susie Page 17. Emotions in Rationalizing Organizations: Conceptual Notes from Professional Nursing in the US Virginia Oleson and Debra Davies