Casualties of debate: A critique of the sociology of emotion

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. e12643
Author(s):  
Maggie Colleen Cobb
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Emotion

Transnational logic of gratitude: Marriage migrants’ narratives on marital satisfaction in South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092199469
Author(s):  
Gowoon Jung
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Marriage Migrants ◽  
Sociology Of Emotion ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Scholarship on marriage migrants has examined the impact of class and gender ideology of receiving countries on their marital satisfaction. However, little is known about the role of transnational background in explaining women’s feelings of gratitude for husbands. Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews with marriage migrant women residing in the eastern side of Seoul, Korea, this article explores the micro-level cognitive processes in understanding women’s gratitude for their husbands. Categorizing marriage migrants into two groups, ‘gratified’ and ‘ungratified’ wives, the author demonstrates how the gratified wives’ feelings of contentment is mediated by their active comparison of Korean husbands with local men in their homelands, and how these viewpoints conversely affect their aspirations for return. Bringing the sociology of emotion into an explanation of marriage migrants’ marital satisfaction, this study aims to develop a transnational frame of reference as an underlying dynamic for comprehending marriage migrants’ (in)gratitude.

Introduction to the Psychoanalytic Sociology of Emotion

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Brown ◽  
Barry Richards
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Emotion

Talcott Parsons and the Sociology of Emotion

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan S. Fish
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Human Emotion ◽  
Sociology Of Emotion

This article offers a critical assessment of the importance accorded to religion and human emotion in Parsons's various readings of Durkheim. While Parsons's reading of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life provides a detailed examination of these two themes as foundations for social order, the same cannot be said of his reading of The Division of Labor in Society, or Durkheim's posthumously published lectures titled Moral Education. Parsons's failure to provide any sustained analysis of the important place of religion and emotion in these last two texts prevents him from acknowledging an important area of theoretical continuity in Durkheim's cumulative writings that goes beyond and yet at the same time embraces Parsons's own identification of a positivist-voluntaristidealist divide in this classical French thinker's work. This area of theoretical continuity is important because it provides a useful backdrop for examining critically the often neglected contribution that Parsons makes to research in the sociology of emotion.

Social History Update: Sociology of Emotion

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. N. Stearns
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Sociology Of Emotion

scholarly journals Abu Ghraib and the commemorative violence of war trophy photography

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey Brooke Jakob ◽  
Paul S. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
War Photography ◽  
Photo Sharing ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Sociology Of Emotion ◽  
Drone Warfare ◽  
Visual Record

The photographs from the Abu Ghraib scandal are horrific, but they are also understandable. Simply put, the Abu Ghraib photos are purposeful compositions that highlight victory over the enemy Other in war. The photos illustrate sexual and racial violence, founded upon postcolonial narratives, but this is only a starting point for their significance. I address how meaning is made for the U.S. military personnel who took photographs of naked Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib, by looking backward to soldiers’ photography from WWI and II, and by considering soldiers’ online sharing of photographs in the present, examining roughly fifty photos total. The relationships between photographic materiality, emotional and gestural communication, and the production of cultural memory, disseminated via networked circulation, all shape how soldiers’ wartime photographs come to be regarded. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this research draws upon war photography; visual culture and communication; sociology of groups and ritual; sociology of emotion; combat histories; memory studies; and online photo sharing practices. In so considering, the Abu Ghraib photos are not unique, and are instead grouped within the greater concept of the “war trophy.” I expand on this concept by defining “war trophy photography” as the entwined practices of war photography and trophy collection, rooted in ritual and group solidification. Staged to depict the violent conquering of the enemy, I argue that war trophy photography recognizes war efforts through the construction of a visual record, one that reproduces relations of dominance and submission. I call this representation “commemorative violence,” a central concept I develop to define the war trophy photograph. In addition to grounding the Abu Ghraib photos historically, I review their visual semiotic, cultural significance, such as with the “Doing a Lynndie” meme, which features civilians gesturing in thumbs-up toward a downtrodden individual, copying the same gesture as often used in the images from Abu Ghraib, and the now defunct site “Now That’s Fucked Up,” which briefly allowed soldiers in 2005 to trade gruesome war trophy pictures for pornography. The conclusion reflects on war trophy photography with the topical consideration of drones, ultimately suggesting that drone warfare photos are expressionless because of the overt absence of people.

Critical Role of Emotions in Media Events

2016 ◽  
pp. 179-195
Author(s):  
Monika Verbalytė
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Specific Emotion ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociology Of Emotion ◽  
Media Event

This contribution relates recent theoretizations of media events with the emotion theory in order to get a better picture of what role emotions play in these events. Critical view toward media events helps to understand the limitations of the claims made by those who established this concept 30 years ago: Rather than instances magically integrating society, media events are seen as struggles over the meaning in the contested media field where by far not every winning meaning enhances societal integration. Additionally, psychology and sociology of emotion gives a necessary foundation for the concise theory of emotions in the media events and guides the empirical inquiry into the subject by suggesting that research should focus on the arousing rhetoric as well as narratives interpreting this arousal and turning it into the specific emotion. The analyzed media event – political scandal – very well exemplifies the theoretical argument made in regard to media events, demonstrates the power of emotions in establishing particular versions of reality and illustrates what I call the recursive logic of media events: the fact that their meaning is established at the very end of their occurrence, whereas their event-ness is implied at the beginning with the intensive arousal attracting everyone's attention.

Critical Role of Emotions in Media Events

2016 ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Monika Verbalytė
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Specific Emotion ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociology Of Emotion ◽  
Media Event

This contribution relates recent theoretizations of media events with the emotion theory in order to get a better picture of what role emotions play in these events. Critical view toward media events helps to understand the limitations of the claims made by those who established this concept 30 years ago: Rather than instances magically integrating society, media events are seen as struggles over the meaning in the contested media field where by far not every winning meaning enhances societal integration. Additionally, psychology and sociology of emotion gives a necessary foundation for the concise theory of emotions in the media events and guides the empirical inquiry into the subject by suggesting that research should focus on the arousing rhetoric as well as narratives interpreting this arousal and turning it into the specific emotion. The analyzed media event – political scandal – very well exemplifies the theoretical argument made in regard to media events, demonstrates the power of emotions in establishing particular versions of reality and illustrates what I call the recursive logic of media events: the fact that their meaning is established at the very end of their occurrence, whereas their event-ness is implied at the beginning with the intensive arousal attracting everyone's attention.

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