Debra Hopkins & Jochen Kleres 
Theorizing Emotions 
Sociological Explorations and Applications

Theorizing Emotions reflects the recent turn to emotions in academia—not just in sociology but also in psychology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience. Drawing on the classic studies of Max Weber, Erving Goffman, Norbert Elias, and Theodor Adorno, several leading European scholars present their findings on the role of emotions in various facets of society, from the laboratory to the office to the media. Among the topics discussed are the tensions between feelings and feeling rules, the conscious and unconscious emotions of scientists, emotions and social disorder, the effect of the emotional turn as an element of advancing modernity, romantic love in U.S. and Israeli codes of conduct, and the role of mass media in generating massive public emotions.

Emotionen sind das Thema der Stunde. Aktuelle soziologische Ansätze zielen auf ein neues Verständnis der Klassiker sowie auf das theoretisch fundierte Studium von Emotionen in Organisationen, der Wirtschaft, den Medien oder Sozialen Bewegungen. Die Beiträge korrigieren den Rationalismus der soziologischen Theoriebildung und belegen die Bedeutung von Gefühlen innerhalb der Gesellschaft.

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Contents

Preface: Notes on the Sociology of Emotions in Europe
Jochen Kleres 7

Introduction: An Emotions Lens on the World
Arlie Russell Hochschild 29

Consciousness, Emotions, and Science
Jack Barbalet 39

Extreme Feelings and Feelings at Extremes
Helena Flam 73

Sociology as Narrative: Examples of Sociological Language
in ‘Classic’ Texts
Helmut Kuzmics 95

Hearts or Wombs? A Cultural Critique of Radical Feminist
Critiques of Love
Eva Illouz and Eitan Wilf 121

Mediatizing Traumas in the Risk Society: A Sociology
of Emotions Approach
Nicolas Demertzis 143

The Civilizing of Emotions: Formalization and
Informalization
Cas Wouters 169

What Makes us Modern(s)? The Place of Emotions
in Contemporary Society
Patrick Becker 195

Shame and Conformity: The Deference-Emotion System
Thomas J. Scheff 221

The ‘Neurosociology’ of Emotion? Progress, Problems
and Prospects
Simon J. Williams 245

Refugee Solidarity: Between National Shame and Global
Outrage
James Goodman 269

Just Being There: Buddies and the Emotionality of
Volunteerism
Jochen Kleres 291

Mediated Parasocial Emotions and Community: How
Media May Strengthen or Weaken Social Communities
Katrin Döveling 315

Notes on Contributors 339

关于作者

Debra Hopkins forscht an der Universität Aberdeen. Helena Flam ist Professorin für Soziologie an der Universität Leipzig, wo Jochen Kleres derzeit promoviert. Helmut Kuzmics ist Professor für Soziologie in Graz.