After what has been termed the affective or emotional turn in sociology and many other academic fields, there is still a dearth of methodologies for systematic empirical emotion analysis in sociology. The article addresses this gap and argues that the principles of narrative analysis can be fruitfully extended to the systematic empirical investigation of emotions. A short description of key principles and tools in narrative analysis will serve as the basis for showing how the same concepts can be used to gain access to the emotional side of human experience. To this end the article engages with philosophical debates to develop a specific theoretical notion of emotions—their narrative nature—and discusses the emotional nature of narrative. Specifically, this calls into question any clear‐cut distinction between meaning and emotion. Based on this, the text then employs linguistic and some psychological and literary research to demonstrate and systematize key ways in which emotions can be expressed narratively as well as on the level of sentences and words. Together this forms an encompassing methodological framework that can capture the emotionality of human experience in its manifold forms. Specifically, this also addresses the problem of non‐conscious emotions.

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This article is about how sociological research in Germany addresses issues that first seem to be unconnected: young new Fascists and migrants. We will present research in these two areas to show how social scientists contribute to feelings about their respective objects of research. We will argue that although both have cultural disorientation of their study objects as their point of departure, they offer differing explanations for it and as a consequence construct contrasting emotions towards the new Fascists and migrants: they portray new Fascists as disoriented victims of modernization in need of sympathy, while they blame migrants for their disorientation resulting from migration and thus call for indifference or antipathy towards this group. Comparing both research fields we can show that both sets of emotions interconnect and thus form a dichotomous emotional regime. Sociological research helps to sustain lines of inclusion and exclusion from the German society.

Das Ethos der Wissenschaftlichkeit fußt auf dem Ideal von Rationalität und Objektivität. Nur unter Rekurs auf diesen Anspruch kann es Wissenschaft gelingen, die Produktion von Wahrheit glaubhaft zu machen. Dabei sind Rationalität und Objektivität in deutlichem Gegensatz zu Emotionalität begriffen. Die erfolgreich behauptete Abwesenheit von Emotionen in wissenschaftlicher Argumentation wird damit zu einer Grundbedingung für deren Legitimität und Wirkmächtigkeit. Dieses Postulat scheint wiederum so selbstverständlich, dass es meist implizit gehalten werden kann und keiner weiteren Begründung mehr bedarf.In den Sozialwissenschaften erhielt das Ethos der Wissenschaftlichkeit darüber hinaus ein spezifisches Gepräge durch das Weber'sche Ideal der Wertfreiheit, das auch heute einen weit verbreiteten Grundsatz sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung darstellt. Hinter der Forderung nach Wertfreiheit ver-63

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