Emotions in Social Life: Critical Themes and Contemporary IssuesGillian Bendelow, Simon J Williams Routledge, 11 sept 2002 - 368 páginas The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life as they hold the key to our understanding of social processes and sociological investigation. First published in 1997, Emotions in Social Life consolidates the sociology of emotions as a legitimate and viable field of enquiry. It provides a comprehensive assessment of the sociology of emotions using work from scholars of international stature, as well as newer writers in the field. It presents new empirical research in conjunction with innovative and challenging theoretical material, and will be essential reading for students of sociology, health psychology, anthropology and gender studies. |
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... issues, in particular, social action and social identity, gender, sexuality and intimacy, the embodiment of emotions across the life-course (from childhood to old age), health and illness, and the social organization of emotions in the ...
... issues are further explored in Chapter 7 by Simon Williams, who offers a timely critical appraisal of the constraints as well as opportunities that cyberspace affords for contemporary forms of emotionally embodied experience. As he ...
Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues Gillian Bendelow, Simon J Williams. In Chapter 8, Berry May all makes a preliminary exploration of these issues through a focus on the neglected topic of children's bodies and emotional lives. In ...
... issue of gender. Certainly, exploration of the relationship between gender, emotions and the body opens up a vast array of important issues, spanning everything from feminist critiques of western being and knowing (mentioned above) and ...
... issues of emotion management to the medicalization of death and its subsequent amenability to human manipulation. As they argue, this manipulation is also true of the emotions engendered for those involved in 'body work', with its ...
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Part II The mediation of emotional experience | 81 |
Part III Emotions and the body through the lifecourse | 133 |
Part IV Sexuality intimacy and personal relations | 189 |
Part V Emotions and health | 247 |
Index | 325 |
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Emotions in Social Life: Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues Gillian Bendelow,Simon Johnson Williams Vista previa restringida - 1998 |
Emotions in Social Life: Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues Gillian Bendelow,Simon J Williams Vista previa restringida - 2002 |
Emotions in Social Life: Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues Gillian Bendelow,Simon Johnson Williams Vista previa restringida - 1998 |