“…Nevertheless, this focus on the negative side still needs to be expanded since it excludes some of the core and most sociologically relevant affective forces, like grief and sadness (Panksepp & Watt, 2011). Note, for instance, that while there is extensive work on the “sociology of anger” (Collett & Lizardo, 2010; Doan, 2012; Magee & Upenieks, 2017), there is no comparable work on the “sociology of sadness” or the “sociology of grief,” even though the universal and systematic experience of losing a loved one or a valuable good is the main trigger for both (Freed, 2009; Zellner et al., 2011). As such, the odd omission of one of the most common negative emotions, like those based on sadness and grief, related to the loss of strong social bonds or exclusion from social relationships represents a profound gap in sociological knowledge that needs to be corrected.…”