Emotion and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis

Volume: 84, Issue: 6, Pages: 1317 - 1334
Published: May 1, 1979
Abstract
This paper attempts to present a largely symbolic interactionist analysis of some aspects of emotion and, in doing so, to indicate the utility of the sociological study of emotion. I begin by examining, from a general sociological perspective, the socialization of effective experience and expression. Several major symbolic interactionist propositions are then used to analyze the emergent, constructed character of the actor's experience of...
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Emotion and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis
Published Date
May 1, 1979
Volume
84
Issue
6
Pages
1317 - 1334
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