The Sociology of Emotion

Casualties of debate: A critique of the sociology of emotion

“…More so than positivists, constructionists build upon solid, sociological foundations, and some include a more diverse range of scholarship; however, it is no coincidence that "emotion management" has hogged the proverbial spotlight, as it, too, features our favorite character: the rational, "masculine-bounded self" (Munt, 2007), who carefully and cognitively rules over emotion with great self-discipline and an eye towards progress. It's worth noting that this "character" is not unrelated to Hochschild's status as one of very few constructionists included in positivistic recipes (Jasper, 2015;Lively & Weed, 2016;Stets, 2012;Thoits, 1999;Turner, 2009) and published in our flagship journals: American Journal of Sociology and Annual Review of Sociology (Hochschild, 1979(Hochschild, , 2011.…”

“…Lively (2015) problematizes emotional experience vs. emotional expression before splitting internal and external (which, in this case, is awkwardly close to experience vs. expression). Jasper (2011) debunks emotion vs. reason and then divorces cognition from emotion and structure from culture (the latter of which is perhaps most brilliantly demonstrated by Lively and Weed (2016), who replaced Stets and Turner (2008) as the representatives of the sociology of emotion in The Handbook of Emotion, a volume "recognized as the definitive reference [that] brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines" (Guilford Press, 2018).…”

“…Luckily, Harkness andHitlin (2016) already settled that debate, at least when it comes to the "universality" of moral judgement, which I suppose at least answers the question as to why neuroscience is highlighted. Lively and Weed (2016), as mentioned above, updated the "definitive" chapter on the sociology of emotion to somehow more fully dichotomize structure and culture throughout, though they do manage to leave some space to applaud the insights of neurology.…”

Empirically Investigating Judicial Emotion

“…My second assumption is that being a judge, in a specific judicial role, place, culture, and time, has a profound impact on all these emotional processes. Judges' professional milieu affects the stimuli to which they are exposed and the goal orientations in service of which they regulate their emotions (Hochschild 1983, Wharton 2009, Lively and Weed 2016. One critical goal orientation is the desire to satisfy the operative cultural script, which in the contemporary developed West leans heavily on the ideal of dispassion (Maroney 2011b).…”