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Author Wetherell, Prof Margaret

Title Affect and Emotion : a New Social Science Understanding
Published London : Sage Publications, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
Contents COVER -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introducing affect: Lines of argument -- 2. Bodying affect: Affective flows and their psychobiological parsing -- 3. Negotiating affect: Discourse, representation and affective meaning-making -- 4. Situating affect: Interaction, accountability and the present moment -- 5. Solidifying affect: Structures of feeling, habitus and emotional capital -- 6. Personalising affect: Relational histories, subjectivities and the psychosocial -- 7. Circulating affect: Waves of feeling, contagion and affective transmission -- References -- Index
Summary In recent years there has been a surge of interest in affect and emotion. Scholars want to discover how people are moved, and understand embodied social action, feelings and passions. How do social formations 'grab' people? How do roller coasters of contempt, patriotism, hate and euphoria power public life? This book systematically reviews research on affect and emotion in neuroscience, social psychology, sociology, and political science. It develops a critique of the 'turn to affect' and argues for an approach based on affective practice. It provides new analyses to explain how affect travels
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Subject Affect (Psychology)
Emotions.
Emotions -- Sociological aspects.
Affect (Psychology)
Emotions.
Emotions -- Sociological aspects.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781446253656
1446253651