Sociological Theories of Human Emotions

Turner, Jonathan H.; Stets, Jan E.

doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123130

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“…Sociological research on emotion also suggests a close connection between social interactions and positive affective experiences (Thoits 1989;Baumeister and Leary 1995;Reiss 2001;Turner and Stets 2006). Collins (2004) theorizes that both positive and negative emotional energies result from "interaction rituals."…”

Section: Religious Service Attendance and Affective Well-beingmentioning

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Religion, Time Use, and Affective Well-Being

Lim¹

2016

SocScience

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This study examines whether religious people experience more positive affect and less negative affect in everyday life and, if they do, whether it is because of the differences in how they allocate time to different activities or because they feel differently during similar activities. Using the well-being module from the 2010-13 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), I show that churchgoers enjoy a significantly higher level of affective well-being on Sunday than non-churchgoers do. The supplementary analysis of the Gallup Daily Poll data suggests that this higher level of affective wellbeing among churchgoers is found throughout the rest of the week as well. Further analyses of the ATUS demonstrate that about 40 percent of the affective well-being gap between churchgoers and non-churchgoers on Sunday can be explained by how they spend their time differently. Churchgoers spend more time on Sunday participating in pleasant activities shared with family members and friends than non-churchgoers do. More than half of the gap, however, remains unexplained, implying that it has to do with how they feel during similar activities rather than the activities in which they participate. I discuss the implications of these findings on the mechanisms underlying the link between religion and subjective well-being.

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Section: Religious Service Attendance and Affective Well-beingmentioning

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Religion, Time Use, and Affective Well-Being

Lim¹

2016

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“…The latter is the key to maintaining life insurance agents and improving their productivity. Turner andStets (2005, 2006) summarized five sociological perspectives on studies of human emotions: (1) dramaturgical theories, (2) symbolic interactionist theories, (3) interaction ritual theories, (4) powerstatus theories and (5) exchange theories. 5 To study life insurance agents and their work, all five theoretical perspectives are useful in terms of providing better understandings and explanations.…”

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“…5 To study life insurance agents and their work, all five theoretical perspectives are useful in terms of providing better understandings and explanations. Turner and Stets (2006) also identified two kinds of strategy that are often used in coping with emotions at work: behavioural strategy and cognitive strategy. They pointed out that in different theories on emotions, the behavioural strategy and the cognitive strategy have different contents and formats.…”

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“…Exchange theories on emotion identify expectation as a significant factor affecting emotional experience (Turner andStets 2005, 2006). When agents' gains exceeded their expectations, they would experience positive emotions.…”

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“…Compared with behavioural strategies, cognitive coping strategies are regarded as more influential for actors, the influence more sustaining (Stets and Turner 2006). This study proposes a broad definition of cognitive strategy, that is, social actors define situations or things in a manner that could aid them in dealing with emotional conflicts.…”

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Through analysing Chinese life insurance agents' emotional conflicts and coping strategies, this study tries to reveal organization and work's impact on the agents.1 Because organizational and working rules are often inconsistent with social norms and personal feelings, life insurance agents easily experience negative emotions and conflicts. Various strategies that make efforts to solve this kind of conflict may trigger some new emotional problems and they probably make agents' emotional conflicts worse as well. In a way, emotional alienation has become a necessity for service workers in the post-industrial society and that means individuals' emotions and regulations are subject to the demand of organization and work, but deviate from egos and social rules.

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Emotions, Sociology of

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2014

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The prominent theoretically driven research traditions in the sociology of emotions are reviewed, and statements are made on some of the enduring conceptual issues in the field of inquiry. The study of emotions emerged rather late in sociology during the 1970s: this late arrival was the result of a relative lack of attention to conceptualizing emotions during sociology's first 110 years. However, once the sociology of emotions was recognized, work in this area continued to accelerate; and today, the study of emotions is leading edge in many fields of sociological inquiry. More specifically, symbolic interactionist, dramaturgical, interaction ritual, power and status, macrolevel stratification, exchange, and evolutionary approaches to conceptualizing emotional dynamics are reviewed. Among the enduring issues briefly explored are the problems in defining emotions, the debate over a social constructionist versus a biological basis of emotions, the debate over the place of cognitions in emotional arousal, the conceptualization variants and varieties of emotional states, and emotions versus rationality.

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Sociological Theories of Human Emotions

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