Emotion and Social Structures: The Affective Foundations of Social Order

192 Pages·2013·5.28 MB·English

by  Christian von Scheve

Emotion and Social Structures
The past decades have seen significant advances in the sociological under-
standing of human emotion. Sociology has shown how culture and society
shape our emotions and how emotions contribute to micro- and macro-social
processes. At the same time, the behavioral sciences have made progress in
understanding emotion at the level of the individual mind and body.
Emotion and Social Structures embraces both perspectives to uncover the
fundamental role of affect and emotion in the emergence and reproduction of
social order. How do culture and social structure influence the cognitive and
bodily basis of emotion? How do large-scale patterns of feeling emerge? And
how do emotions promote the coordination of social action and interaction?
Integrating theories and evidence from disciplines such as psychology,
cognitive science, and neuroscience, Christian von Scheve argues for a
sociological understanding of emotion as a bi-directional mediator between
social action and social structure.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the sociology
of emotion, microsociology, and cognitive sociology, as well as social
psychology, cognitive science, and affective neuroscience.
Christian von Scheveis Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department
of Sociology and the Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion,” Freie
Universität Berlin. His research focuses on the sociology of emotion, culture
and cognition, social inequality, and social psychology.
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Emotion and Social
Structures
The affective foundations
of social order
Christian von Scheve
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Scheve, Christian von.
[Emotionen und soziale Strukturen. English]
Emotion and social structures: the affective foundations of social order/
Christian von Scheve.
pages cm. – (Routledge advances in sociology; 107)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Emotions – Sociological aspects. 2. Social psychology. 3. Emotions and
cognition. I. Title.
HM1033.S25613 2013
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Contents
List of illustrations x
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 Self, society, and emotion 5
Micro–macro perspectives in the sociology of emotion 10
Understandings of affect and emotion 13
2 Socially structured emotions 17
Neurophysiological foundations of emotion elicitation 19
Cognitive foundations of emotion elicitation 31
The social structuration of affect and emotion 54
3 The affective structure of social action 74
Some determinants of social action 75
Cognition, emotion, and rationality 79
4 The affective structure of social interaction 102
The expression and communication of emotion 104
Emotion regulation and social control 118
Concluding remarks 141
Notes 147
References 149
Index 171