Emotions And Social Relations
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Emotion in Social Relations
Within psychology, emotion is often treated as something private and personal. In contrast, this book tries to understand emotion from the 'outside,' by examining the everyday social settings in which it operates. Three levels of social influence are considered in decreasing order of inclusiveness, starting with the surrounding culture and subculture, moving on to the more delimited organization or group, and finally focusing on the interpersonal setting.
Emotions and Social Relations
"A thoughtful, scholarly yet accessible account of emotion that speaks to current debates associated with the ‘affective turn’ in disciplines including sociology, cultural studies, geography and psychology... invaluable for anyone wanting to understand contemporary engagements with affect, emotion and feeling." - John Cromby, Loughborough University "A lucid, engaging, and thoroughly insightful review of current social scientific thinking on emotions in social life by a leading scholar in the field... The book is sure to become essential reading for both students and researchers interested in emotion" - Jason Hughes, University of Leicester "A masterful exposition of the links between emotions and social relations... Empirically rich and theoretically deep, this is a highly readable book. - Svend Brinkmann, University of Aalborg This book is a compelling and timely addition to the study of emotions, arguing that emotion is a response to the way in which people are embedded in patterns of relationship, both to others and to significant social and political events or situations. Going beyond the traditional discursive understanding of emotions, Burkitt investigates emotions as a complex and dynamic phenomenon that includes the whole self, body and mind, but which always occur in relation to others.
Emotions and Social Relations
Emotion is a relatively new substantive topic within sociology. Growing interest to the topic is likely due to the recognition that humans are not motivated solely by rational-economic concerns. Emotional attachments to others and affective commitments (eg: desires, attitudes, values, moral beliefs) influence a significant portion of human behaviour. Emotion is treated as an independent variable much less frequently in microlevel approaches. Most sociologists assume, either explicitly or implicitly, that feelings motivate subsequent behaviours, but attempts to specify which emotions lead to which behaviours are rare. However, certain types of emotions have been linked theoretically to the outcome of social control. Other social psychological approaches treat emotions as intervening variables in broader social processes. Emotions have been used to link macro factors to micro factors, micro to macro factors, or both. Emotional competencies are thought to be important for social interaction because emotions serve communicative and social functions, conveying information about peoples thoughts and intentions and coordinating social encounters. Positive emotionality is associated with sociability, whereas persistent negative affect keeps others at bay. Accordingly, people need to process emotional information and manage emotional dynamics intelligently to navigate the social world. Yet, few studies to date have examined the relationship between individual differences in emotional competencies and social adaptation in adult, nonclinical populations. The idea that emotional competencies are crucial for adaptation in various realms of life has fuelled interest in the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) and inspired numerous programs of social and emotional learning in school and work settings. This book explains the role of basic emotions in social relationships, their effects on reasoning, and their pathology in psychological illness, such as depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Emotions also enable them to cooperate with other individuals, to compete with them, and to disengage from them. The human system of emotions has also grafted onto basic emotions propositional contents about the cause of the emotion, the self, and other matters. Complex emotions always contain such contents, whereas basic emotions can be experienced without them. This book brings together inquiries into the size and proximity of social networks and emotion in social relationships to advance understanding of how emotion in significant social relationships influences health.