Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: emotions in social life -- Part I Critical perspectives on emotions -- 1 The sociology of emotion as a way of seeing -- INTRODUCTION -- The sociological view without emotion in focus: the function of a ritual -- The psychoanalytic view: the bride's narcissistic expectation -- THE SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS VIEW -- THE MODERN PARADOX OF LOVE -- NEW DEMANDS FOR EMOTION MANAGEMENT -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 2 Emotion and communicative action -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORIES OF EMOTION -- Linguistic philosophy and emotion -- Linguistic philosophy assessed -- EXISTENTIALISM AND EMOTION -- INTENTIONALITY, EMOTION AND MAGIC -- INSTRUMENTAL AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTIONS -- EMOTION, ARGUMENT AND SOCIAL ORDER -- EMOTION AND PERSONAL HISTORY -- THE LIMITS OF EXISTENTIALISM -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 3 The limitations of cultural constructionism in the study of emotion -- INTRODUCTION -- CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND EMOTION -- IDEATIONAL BIAS IN THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF EMOTION -- UNRESOLVED CONTRADICTIONS IN THE CONCEPT OF SYMBOL -- The problem of the 'location' of emotion -- The disappearing body -- EMOTION, SOCIETY AND THE RE-EMBODIMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4 The sociogenesis of emotion -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL CONTINUITY? -- Elias -- REREADING THE SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTION THROUGH ELIAS -- EXPLAINING AHISTORICISM -- FROM COURTLY SOCIETY TO THE BOURGEOISIE -- FROM COURTLY TO INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY -- THEORIZING EMOTION: FROM INDUSTRIAL TO CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY -- REFRAMING ELIASIAN ACCOUNTS OF EMOTION -- NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Part II The mediation of emotional experience -- 5 'Bored and blasé' -- NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 6 In search of the inner child -- INTRODUCTION -- LIFE ON THE NET.

The method of instances -- The real and the virtual -- ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS AND THEIR OFFSPRING -- HISTORY -- THREAD ONE: 'CHOICES, HOLIDAYS AND GIFTS' -- Choices -- Holidays and Gifts -- THREAD TWO: 'HELP ME UNDERSTAND SOMETHING' -- Feminizing and resisting Richard -- Lucia re-posts to Richard -- Inscribing Lucia's illness -- Women by-passing illness -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND RECOVERING SELVES -- WHOSE CHILDHOOD IS IT ANYWAY? -- IN CONCLUSION: BACK AT 'THE 12 STEPS CYBERSPACE CAFE' -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 7 Emotions, cyberspace and the 'virtual' body -- INTRODUCTION -- LIFE IN MEDIASCAPE SOCIETY: THE 'BLUNTING' OR 'INTENSIFICATION' OF EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE? -- CYBERSPACE AND THE 'DISEMBODIED' MIND: HIGH-TECH PLATONISM? -- CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Part III Emotions and the body through the life-course -- 8 Children, emotions and daily life at home and school -- INTRODUCTION -- CHILDHOOD FROM A SOCIOLOGICAL STANDPOINT -- Generational proximity -- Models of childhood, models of adulthood -- HOME AND SCHOOL AS ARENAS FOR CHILDREN'S DAILY LIFE -- CHILDREN'S EMBODIED EXPERIENCE AT HOME AND SCHOOL -- Participating in constructing the social order -- Acquiring knowledge -- Managing one's body at home and at school -- Dealing with illness -- DISCUSSION -- NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 9 'Shorties, low-lifers, hardnuts and kings' -- INTRODUCTION: ONE FRIDAY, TWO STORIES -- Friday a.m. Shirley's story: Andy and the dead cat -- Friday p.m. Simon's story: Perky the monkey -- EMOTION, EMBODIMENT AND SCHOOL -- Boys' use of space -- The shame of smallness and the language of hardness -- Hierarchies and cycles of embodied masculinity -- The power of groups -- DISCUSSION: TO TOUCH WITHOUT BEING TOUCHED… -- Learning to endure -- The proper masculine surface: out of reach? -- Coda: doing emotion work -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE.

BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 10 Ageing and the emotions -- INTRODUCTION: EMOTIONS, SUBJECTIVE AND SOCIAL -- AGES AND STAGES -- CREATIVE TENSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Part IV Sexuality, intimacy and personal relations -- 11 Masculinity, violence and emotional life -- INTRODUCTION -- MASCULINITY AND CONTROL -- MASCULINITY AND VIOLENCE -- MEN, SEXUALITY AND POWER -- EXPERIENCE, POWER AND EMOTIONS -- MEN, VIOLENCE AND EMOTIONAL LIFE -- MEN, MASCULINITIES AND EMOTIONAL LIFE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 12 'Stepford wives' and 'hollow men'? -- INTRODUCTION -- WOMEN, MARRIAGE AND EMOTION WORK: SOME EMPIRICAL EXAMPLES -- MEN'S EMOTION WORK IN MARRIAGE AND COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS -- LOSS OF AUTHENTICITY: HOCHSCHILD'S MODEL AND PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY -- 'DOING GENDER', 'DOING EMOTION WORK' AND AUTHENTICITY -- HOCHSCHILD'S STUDY OF MARRIAGE -- THE TRADE-OFF BETWEEN EMOTION WORK AND INDIVIDUALS' SENSE OF 'AUTHENTICITY' -- Men, emotion work and authenticity -- Women, emotion work and authenticity -- IN CONCLUSION: THE SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 13 Changes in the 'lust balance' of sex and love since the sexual revolution -- INTRODUCTION -- CHANGES IN THE LUST BALANCE -- The sexual revolution -- From 'sexual liberation' to 'sexual oppression' -- The anti-pornography movement -- What is the price of sex? -- Lust revival -- Lust and love revival -- REGULARITIES IN PROCESSES OF INTEGRATION AND CIVILIZATION -- Lust anxiety: social and sexual fear of 'heights' and 'depths' -- Three types: trend-followers, radicals and moderates -- Phases in processes of emancipation, accommodation and integration -- Intensified tugs-of-war and ambivalence -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Part V Emotions and health -- 14 Emotions, pain and gender -- INTRODUCTION -- RESEARCHING PAIN AND GENDER -- THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF PAIN -- PAIN AND GENDER -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.

15 Social performances and their discontents -- INTRODUCTION -- THE GEOGRAPHY OF EMOTIONS AND EMOTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS -- MIND-BODY AND PERFORMANCES -- EMOTIONAL INFORMATION AND PSYCHOSOMATIC SPACE -- THE THEATRE OF INNER PSYCHOSOMATIC SPACE -- DRAMATURGICAL STRESS IN SOCIOPHYSICAL SPACE -- DRAMATURGICAL STRESS AND HEALTH -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 16 'Getting the job done' -- INTRODUCTION -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- EMOTIONAL LABOUR AND CARING -- Doing dirty work: pollution and body work in nursing -- Death and dying -- Sanitized theory and the messiness of practice -- EMOTION WORK -- Anger -- Laughter -- DEATH, DRAMA AND INDIGNITY -- Dignity regained -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 17 Emotions in rationalizing organizations -- INTRODUCTION -- EMOTIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS -- NURSING HISTORY AND EMOTIONAL LABOUR -- NURSING IN MANAGED CARE -- EMPIRICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE EMOTION WORK OF NURSES -- CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index.