Review Essay: Emotions and Social Bonds

Clark, Candace; Scheff, Thomas J.; Retzinger, Suzanne M.

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“…Scheff and Retzinger claim that: ‘[i]n all interaction, either the social bond is being built, maintained or repaired, or it is being damaged’ (Scheff and Retzinger, 1991: 64). However, they do not go into depth with how social bonds are shaped (Clark, 1993). To investigate this topic, I complement social bonds with the concept of intimacy (Jamieson, 1998).…”

Section: Intimate Social Bondsmentioning

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‘Because I love him’: Children’s relationships to their parents in the context of intimate partner violence

Henze-Pedersen

2021

Childhood

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This paper investigates how children experience and practice parental relationships after moving to a women’s refuge. Most research has explored the moving and separation process from women’s perspectives, but this paper focus on children’s perspectives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with children at a refuge, the analysis shows how children’s parental relationships – despite the violence – remain important under difficult family circumstances, and how children practice intimate social bonds while being embedded within complex family relationships. This brings attention to the wider contexts of children’s relationships and how these affect children’s experiences and practices of intimate social bonds.

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Section: Intimate Social Bondsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Because I love him’: Children’s relationships to their parents in the context of intimate partner violence

Henze-Pedersen

2021

Childhood

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“…It is not our intention to get into the debate here. But we think among sociologists who study emotion, it is agreed upon by all hands that emotion is a physical emanation (Clark 1993; Harré 1986; Hochschild 1979, 1998; Katz 1999; Scheff 1990; Thoits 1989), if only among other things. And it is of course the other things that most interest sociologists.…”

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Toward a Theory of Emotive Performance: With Lessons from How Politicians Do Anger

Kidder

2010

Sociological Theory

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This article treats the public display of emotion as social performance. The concept of "emotive performance" is developed to highlight the overlooked quality of performativity in the social use of emotion. We argue that emotive performance is reflexive, cultural, and communicative. As an active social act, emotive performance draws from the cultural repertoire of interpretative frameworks and dominant narratives. We illustrate the utility of the concept by analyzing two episodes of unrehearsed emotive performances by two well-known politicians, Bill Clinton and Jiang Zemin. The two cases demonstrate how emotion can be analyzed as a domain in which culturally specific narratives and rhetorics are used to advance the situational agenda of actors. The concept opens up a more expansive research agenda for sociology. It pushes sociologists to pay greater attention to people's experiences, interpretations, and deployments of emotions in social life.

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Review Essay: Emotions and Social Bonds

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‘Because I love him’: Children’s relationships to their parents in the context of intimate partner violence

‘Because I love him’: Children’s relationships to their parents in the context of intimate partner violence

Toward a Theory of Emotive Performance: With Lessons from How Politicians Do Anger

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