The Sociology of Emotions: Basic Theoretical Arguments

Turner, Jonathan H.

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“…It makes explicit use of more theorised accounts of emotionalised decision-making in the works of Gould (2009) andTurner (2009) and applies their ideas to help explain the terrain of funeral arranging.…”

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Final arrangements: examining debt and distress

McManus

Schäfer

2014

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Prevailing discourses condemn funerals as a costly distress purchase where funeral directors have greedily preyed upon funeral arrangers' grief laden vulnerability. They explain funerals as distress purchases and so debt as the outcome of irrational decisions made while emotionally overwhelmed. These discourses ignore how people might use funeral purchases in dealing with the experience of death as they obscure rather than explain the emotionally infused decision-making that incurs funeral debt. This paper aims to shed light on this aspect of funeral purchases through a New Zealand-based empirical investigation of how intense feelings connect with decision-making associated with funeral cost and debt. The examination highlights that arranging a funeral, rather than being a hurried, ill-informed, choicelimited, emotionally overwhelming distress purchase, is a complex socio-emotional process that crystallises multiple affects into the culturally sanctioned emotion of responsibility, itself mobilised on class lines embedded in existing societal attitudes to debt and socio-economic structures.

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Final arrangements: examining debt and distress

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2014

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“…Most researchers agree on four primary emotions that all humans experience: anger, fear sadness and happiness (Turner, 2009). Other emotions that are often included as primary are disgust and surprise while shame and guilt can be found on several lists too (see e.g., Emde, 1980;Izard, 1977Izard, , 1992.…”

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Emotionally Intense Science Activities

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Ritchie

Sandhu

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International Journal of Science Education

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Science activities that evoke positive emotional responses make a difference to students' emotional experience of science. In this study, we explored 8 th Grade students' discrete emotions expressed during science activities in a unit on Energy. Multiple data sources including classroom videos, interviews and emotion diaries completed at the end of each lesson were analyzed to identify individual student's emotions. Results from two representative students are presented as case studies. Using a theoretical perspective drawn from theories of emotions founded in sociology, two assertions emerged. Firstly, during the demonstration activity students experienced the emotions of wonder and surprise; secondly, during a laboratory activity students experienced the intense positive emotions of happiness/joy. Characteristics of these activities that contributed to students' positive experiences are highlighted. The study found that choosing activities that evoked strong positive emotional experiences, focused students' attention on the phenomenon they were learning, and the activities were recalled positively. Furthermore, such positive experiences may contribute to students' interest and engagement in science and longerterm memorability. Finally, implications for science teachers and pre-service teacher education are suggested.

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“…Emotional responses are also evoked by a number of factors and in a number of ways when a person engages with data in its most common form, through a visualisation. Here, debates within the sociology of emotions which are concerned with the relationship between emotion and cognition or reason are relevant (Turner, 2009;Turner, 2000). As Jagger (1989) argues, emotion can be understood as an 'epistemic resource', a way of knowing that is valuable for building a critique of the world.…”

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The Feeling of Numbers: Emotions in Everyday Engagements with Data and Their Visualisation

2017

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This paper highlights the role that emotions play in engagements with data and their visualisation. To date, the relationship between data and emotions has rarely been noted, in part because data studies have not attended to everyday engagements with data. We draw on an empirical study to show a wide range of emotional engagements with diverse aspects of data and their visualisation, and so demonstrate the importance of emotions as vital components of making sense of data. We nuance the argument that regimes of datafication, in which numbers, metrics and statistics dominate, are characterised by a renewed faith in objectivity and rationality, arguing that in datafied times, it is not only numbers but also the feeling of numbers that is important. We build on the sociology of a) emotions and b) the everyday to do this, and in so doing, we contribute to the development of a sociology of data. 2.

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The Sociology of Emotions: Basic Theoretical Arguments

Cited by 187 publications

References 43 publications

Final arrangements: examining debt and distress

Final arrangements: examining debt and distress

Emotionally Intense Science Activities

The Feeling of Numbers: Emotions in Everyday Engagements with Data and Their Visualisation

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