Sociological concepts of emotions and their problems

Abstract

Die Soziologie der Emotionen stellt in jüngerer Zeit eine florierende Unternehmung dar. Die noch vor einer Dekade oft gehörte Klage, die Soziologie sei eine emotionsfreie Zone, wird heute kaum mehr geäußert. Ein Blick auf jün-gere Publikationen lehrt etwas anderes und zeugt von einem lebendigen Forschungsfeld. Eva Illouz (2004Illouz ( , 2006 zeichnet etwa in ihren Untersuchungen die intimen Verbindungen zwischen kapitalistischer Ökonomie und modernen Gefühlskulturen nach und stellt damit etablierte soziologische Unterscheidungen von ‚affektiven' und ‚versachlichten' gesellschaftlichen Sphären in Frage. Jack Katz (1999) untersucht in einer phänomenologischen Weise die leiblich-emotionalen Dramaturgien, mit Hilfe derer wir im Alltag problematische Situationen und Grenzverletzungen abwehren. Sighard Neckel (1991) 82

How Do Financial Actors Decide Under Conditions of Fundamental Uncertainty?—The Role of Emotions as a Social Mechanism to Overcome Fundamental Uncertainty

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“…Primary cognitive emotions presuppose social experiences (e.g., fear because of a person), whereas secondary cognitive emotions are based on complex social relations and experiences. For example, in order to envy a person, knowledge about complex social relations is needed; in order to have a "good feeling" about something, nuanced knowledge and multiple experiences of similar and differing situations are, as a rule, needed (Neckel, 1991;Gigerenzer, 2007;Schützeichel, 2008). stressed here that the nature of an emotional experience can only be captured by way of an inner experience that maintains its essence (Heller, 1980).…”

Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism

“…Yet, the reversal of affect deficiency produced a cross-nationally observable culture of affective positivity. As capitalism theories have focused on western rational capitalism, it is useful to clarify how the theory of aesthetic capitalism and the Affective-Turn literature on atmospheres, affordances, and immersion challenge some of the key concepts by sociological theory, and how it may be adjusting to the new knowledge of our times that has emerged in research on affect (Angerer et al, 2017;Bericat, 2016;Blackman & Venn, 2010;Clough & Halley, 2007;Gregg, 2010;Schützeichel, 2008;Slaby & Scheve, 2019;Wetherell, 2015).…”

“…Secondary emotions are more complex and learned. Correlates of affect are bodily phenomena such as changes to breathing, speech pattern, etc (Schützeichel, 2008)…”