A general theory of emotions and social life
By: Warren D. TenHouten
Series: Routledge advances in sociology -- 24
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780415363105; 9780203013441
Subjects: Emotions -- Social aspects
Description: "This unique volume presents a general theory linking emotions and rational thought to social relationships. In his innovative new book TenHouten presents an encyclopaedic classification of the emotions (describing 54 in total) and offers one of the most original and multi-leveled accounts of the emotions and social life ever developed"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-294) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: From Darwin to psychoevolutionary theories of primary and secondary emotions; title: The four pairs of opposite primary emotions : acceptance and disgust, joy and sadness, anger and fear, anticipation and surprise; title: Secondary emotions : the four pairs of opposite primary dyads : love and misery, pride and embarrassment, aggressiveness and alarm, curiosity and cynicism; title: Secondary emotions, continued : the four pairs of half-opposite secondary dyads : dominance and submissiveness, optimism and pessimism, delight and disappointment, repugnance and contempt; title: Secondary emotions, continued : the eight tertiary dyads : resourcefulness and shock, morbidness and resignation, sullenness and guilt, anxiety and outrage; title: Secondary emotions, continued : the four antithetical, quaternary dyads : ambivalence, catharsis, frozenness, confusion; title: The sociorelational approach to the emotions : four elementary forms of sociality; title: Affect-spectrum theory : the emotions of rationality and of intimacy; title: Affect-spectrum theory, continued : the emotions linking informal community and formal society; a typology of four character structures; title: Social identity and social control : pride and embarrassment, pridefulness and shame; title: Socialization and the emotions : from alexithymia to symbolic elaboration and creativity; title: The development of tertiary emotions : jealousy, envy, ambition, confidence, and hope; title: Emotions, violence, and the self; title: A partial empirical test of affect-spectrum theory