Postemotional Society
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: February 18, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780761951285
Subjects: Social, group or collective psychology; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociological Theory; Social Science; Sociology; Social Science / Sociology / General; Sociology - General
First sentence: The following is a theoretical discussion that will attempt to introduce a new sociological concept, postemotionalism, to account for the lacunae and deficiencies of postmodernism as a theoretical construct, and to capture a distinct tendency in contemporary social life toward the mechanization of emotional life.