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Book SynopsisPushing the boundaries of sociology and stimulating debate for related fields, Emotions Matter offers diverse relational approaches that illustrate the crucial importance of emotions to the sociological imagination.
Trade Review'Highly recommended.' -- C.J. Churchill Choice Magazine, vol50:02:2012
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Contributors Chapter 1: For a Relational Approach to Emotions Section I: Conceptual Issues in the Sociology of Emotions Chapter 2: Emotion's Crucible Chapter 3: Sociable Happiness Chapter 4: 'Feeling a Feeling' in Emotion Management Chapter 5: Illegitimate Pain: Introducing a Concept and a Research Agenda Chapter 6: Religion Within the Bounds of Emotion Alone: Bergson and Kant Chapter 7: Humanitarianism as a Politics of Emotion Chapter 8: The Civilizing Process and Emotional Life: The Intensification and Hollowing Out of Contemporary Emotions Chapter 9: Emotions In/and Knowing Section II: Emotions and Empirical Investigations Chapter 10: How Emotions Matter: Objects, Organizations and the Emotional Climate of a Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Chapter 11: Emotional Deviance and Mental Disorder Chapter 12: Polyamory or Polyagony? Jealousy in Open Relationships Chapter 13: Feeling Cosmopolitan: Experiential Brands and Urban Cosmopolitan Sensibilities Chapter 14: Autistic Autobiographies and More-than-Human Emotional Geographies References
