Affect and emotion
Subtitle: a new social science understanding
By: Margaret Wetherell
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Los Angeles; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780857028563; 9780857028570
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Emotions; Affect (Psychology)
Other titles: New social science understanding
Description: In recent years there has been a surge of interest in affect and emotion. Scholars want to discover how people are moved, and understand embodied social action, feelings and passions. How do social formations 'grab' people? How do roller coasters of contempt, patriotism, hate and euphoria power public life? This book systematically reviews research on affect and emotion in neuroscience, social psychology, sociology, and political science. It develops a critique of the 'turn to affect' and argues for an approach based on affective practice. It provides new analyses to explain how affect travels, settles, circulates and coalesces.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-176) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing affect: lines of argument; title: Bodying affect: affective flows and their psychobiological figuring; title: Negotiating affect: discourse, representation and affective meaning-making; title: Situating affect: interaction, accountability and the present moment; title: Solidifying affect: structures of feeling, habitus and emotional capital; title: Personalising affect: relational histories, subjectivities and the psychosocial; title: Circulating affect: waves of feeling, contagion and affective transmission.