Studies in the Suspension of the “Flow” of Social Life

Boyns, David; Appelrouth, Scott

doi:10.1080/02732173.2011.541342

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“… Gute et al (2008) found through the analysis of existing interview reports from highly creative persons that parents who foster both integration (e.g., providing emotional support) and its opposite, differentiation, (e.g., stimulation to work on personal goals) cultivate environments for creativity and flow. Using Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory, Boyns and Appelrouth (2011) investigated the suspension of activity in public isolation and found that for most participants, “non-doing” leads to counterparts of the flow characteristics (e.g., boredom and anxiety).…”

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A Scoping Review of Flow Research

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Flow is a gratifying state of deep involvement and absorption that individuals report when facing a challenging activity and they perceive adequate abilities to cope with it (EFRN, 2014). The flow concept was introduced by Csikszentmihalyi in 1975, and interest in flow research is growing. However, to our best knowledge, no scoping review exists that takes a systematic look at studies on flow which were published between the years 2000 and 2016. Overall, 252 studies have been included in this review. Our review (1) provides a framework to cluster flow research, (2) gives a systematic overview about existing studies and their findings, and (3) provides an overview about implications for future research. The provided framework consists of three levels of flow research. In the first “Individual” level are the categories for personality, motivation, physiology, emotion, cognition, and behavior. The second “Contextual” level contains the categories for contextual and interindividual factors and the third “Cultural” level contains cultural factors that relate to flow. Using our framework, we systematically present the findings for each category. While flow research has made progress in understanding flow, in the future, more experimental and longitudinal studies are needed to gain deeper insights into the causal structure of flow and its antecedents and consequences.

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“…According to Stebbins ( 2005 ), flow is a main drive for practicing leisure activities due to its highly rewarding character. Using Collins' (2004) vocabulary, this can be also understood in terms of emotional energy tropism that explicates practices of orienting oneself toward situations that may increase the levels of emotional energy, for instance striving for high emotional energy experiences such as flow (Boyns and Appelrouth, 2011 ; Heikkinen and Alfredsson-Olsson, 2020 ). Expressions pointing to temporary experiences of flow such as “finding the good feeling,” “it flows,” “hover,” and “floating” were repeatedly used by the interviewees, or as Anna and Agneta put it:…”

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“…(Anna,65) Flow can be described as a temporary state when the interaction rituals are performed smoothly and the emotional energy levels are very high (cf. Boyns and Appelrouth, 2011;Heikkinen and Alfredsson-Olsson, 2020). According to Stebbins (2005), flow is a main drive for practicing leisure activities due to its highly rewarding character.…”

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Dancing My Age: Emotions, Interactions, and Bodily Sensations

Heikkinen

Wilińska

2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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While there is a growing body of research on the social aspects of older people's dance, studies focusing on emotions are rare. In this study, we use an interactionist sociological perspective to examine the role of emotions in older social dancers' experiences in Sweden. Through qualitative interviews with 29 active or previously active dancers, we found that their experiences of emotional energy and experiences of flow override concerns of age and aging. Age, however, did become significant as the age differences at dance events could bring forth feelings of alienation associated with feeling old. In addition, cultural and gendered norms of appropriate age differences between dancing partners produced shame and pride as well as feelings of being either old or young. Moreover, certain bodily experiences were interpreted in terms of age. Overall, the study contributes to the discussions of the complexity of subjective experiences of age by highlighting its emotional aspects through social partner dancing.

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“…Over 60 articles, published by authors across the globe, employed Hochschild’s (1983a) concepts of emotion management and feeling rules (Cohen, 2010; Fine and Fields, 2008; James, 1989), often in combination with other theories (Martin, 2000; Taylor, 2010; Wouters, 1992). Collins’ theory of Interaction Ritual Chains (2004) was used in 22 articles (Boyns and Appelrouth, 2011; Dolan and Connolly, 2014; Parker and Hackett, 2012) by primarily USA-based authors. Macro-sociological approaches to understanding the stratified power dimensions of emotion, using theories by Kemper (1978), Barbalet (1998) and others, were used in over 30 studies by mainly USA-based authors (Heaney, 2011; Ray, 2014; Ridgeway and Johnson, 1990).…”

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The sociology of emotions: A meta-reflexive review of a theoretical tradition in flux

Olson

McKenzie

Patulny

2017

Journal of Sociology

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Based in a novel 'meta-reflexive' review of sociology of emotions (SoE) articles, we suggest that there are two primary SoE theoretical traditions that function within geographic silos: the USA is distinctly social psychological, while in the UK and Australia, SoE is more aligned with the humanities. In both traditions, parallel calls are emerging for interdisciplinarity and further engagement with physiological and pre-personal elements of emotion. Based in Archer's and Bourdieu's concepts of reflexivity, we assert the merits of reflexively examining SoE, and then identify key changes in SoE that have emerged across time and geography. Using Kuhn's work on paradigm shifts, we conclude that SoE is entering a stage of growth and change, and raise important questions about the subdiscipline's future direction.

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Studies in the Suspension of the “Flow” of Social Life

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

A Scoping Review of Flow Research

A Scoping Review of Flow Research

Dancing My Age: Emotions, Interactions, and Bodily Sensations

The sociology of emotions: A meta-reflexive review of a theoretical tradition in flux

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