an alcoholic is good and sober: sentiment change in AA

From Festies to Tourrats: Examining the Relationship between Jamband Subculture Involvement and Role Meanings

“…In addition, many empirical studies have found that this hypothesis is supported (King 2001;Smith-Lovin and Douglass 1992;Thomassen 2002). Shared meanings are often necessary for members of a particular culture to define situations, interpret communications from others, and perform tasks (Festinger 1954;Goffman 1974;Vallacher and Wegner 1987).…”

“…Several studies have operationalized membership or involvement dichotomously and found that participation in a subculture or exposure to an ideology different from the mainstream fosters unique meanings for concepts central to the subgroup or subculture (Francis 1997;Smith-Lovin and Douglass 1992;Thomassen 2002). For instance, Smith-Lovin and Douglass (1992) measured membership dichotomously and found that members of a gay-friendly community church and members of a more traditional liberal Christian church hold significantly different meanings for gay and religious role identities.…”

Back to the Future: 25 Years of Research in Affect Control Theory

“…Berbrier (1998) employed affect control theory as a framework to bring emotion into an interpretation of the rhetoric of contemporary white supremacist subculture. Thomassen (2002) studied sentiment change in Alcoholic Anonymous; King (2001King ( , 2008 connected Internet cultures with social sentiments for Internet identities and behaviors. Hunt (2008Hunt ( , 2010 studied involvement, identity-roles, conformity, and deviance in Jamband subcultures.…”

“…also applied affect control theory to show how the willful exposure to pain in religious and sexual contexts can be rendered into a positive affective experience. Thomassen's (2002) study of Alcoholics Anonymous and Hunt's (2010Hunt's ( , 2012 study of Jamband subculture also represent studies in deviance. (2000) identified three deficits in the social cognition approach to stereotyping and intergroup relations in psychology that can be corrected by an affect control theory approach, and conducted three studies based on intergroup attitudes for Canadian regional identities to substantiate this claim.…”

Expressive Order

“…Marks (1965;) measured psychopaths' self-sentiments and their sentiments about everyday concepts. Thomassen (2002) examined how participation in Alcoholics Anonymous influences sentiments about drinking. Schneider (1999b) found that Americans, more than Germans, affectively respond to sexuality in ways encouraging violence.…”