The sociology of emotions: Basic theoretical arguments

Emotion Review

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 340-354

  Turner, Jonathan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Emotions; Sociology; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349583601     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073909338305     Document Type: Review

References (78)

1. Arnold, M.B. (1960). Emotion and personality. New York: Columbia University Press
2. Barbalet, J.M. (1998). Emotion, social theory, and social structure: A macrosociological approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
3. Berger, J. (1988). Directions in expectation states research. In M. J. Webster & M. Foschi (Eds.), Status generalization: New theory and research (pp. 450-474). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
4. Bianchi, A. (2004). Rejecting others' influence: Negative sentiment and status in task groups. Sociological Perspectives, 47, 339-355
5. Burke, P.J. (1991). Identity processes and social stress. American Sociological Review, 56, 836-849
6. Burke, P.J. (1996). Social identities and psychosocial stress. In H. B. Kaplan (Ed.), Psychosocial stress: Perspectives on structure, theory, life course, and methods (pp. 141-174). Orlando, FL: Academic Press
7. Clark, C. (1990). Emotions and micropolitics in everyday life. In T. D. Kemper (Ed.), Research agendas in the sociology of emotions (pp. 305-333). Albany, NY: SUNY Press
8. Clark, C. (1997). Misery loves company: Sympathy in everyday life. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
9. Collins, R. (1975). Conflict sociology: Toward an explanatory science. New York: Academic Press
10. Collins, R. (1990). Stratification, emotional energy, and the transient emotions. In T. D. Kemper (Ed.), Research agendas in the sociology of emotions (pp. 27-57). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press
11. Collins, R. (2004). Interaction ritual chains. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
12. Collins, R. (2008). Violence: A micro-sociological theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
13. Cooley, C.H. (1902). Human nature and the social order. New York: Shocken
14. Damasio, A. (1994). Descarte's error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain. Orlando, FL: G. P. Putman
15. Driskell, J.E., & Webster, M., Jr. (1997). Status and sentiment in task groups. In J. Szmatka, J. Skvoretz & J. Berger (Eds.), Status, network, and structure: Theory development in group processes (pp. 179-200). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
16. Ekman, P., & Friesen, W.V. (1971). Constants across cultures in the face and emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 17, 124-129
17. Emerson, R.M. (1962). Power-dependence relations. American Sociological Review, 27, 31-40
18. Franks, D. (2006). The neuroscience of emotions. In J. E. Stets & J. H. Turner (Eds.), Handbook of the sociology of emotions (pp. 39-62). New York: Springer
19. Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. Garden City, NY: Doubleday
20. Goffman, E. (1967). Interaction ritual: Essays on face-to-face behavior. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books
21. Goffman, E. (1974). Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience. New York: Harper & Row
22. Gordon, S.L. (1981). The sociology of sentiments and emotion. In M. Rosenberg & R. H. Turner (Eds.), Social psychology: Sociological perspectives (pp. 562-592). New York: Basic Books
23. Hegtvedt, K.A., & Killian, C. (1999). Fairness and emotions: Reactions to the process and outcomes of negotiations. Social Forces, 78, 269-303
24. Heise, D.R. (1979). Understanding events: Affect and the construction of social action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
25. Hochschild, A.R. (1975). The sociology of emotions: Selected possibilities. In M. Millman & R. M. Kanter (Eds.), Another voice (pp. 280-307). Garden City, NY: Anchor Press
26. Hochschild, A.R. (1979). Emotion work, feeling rules, and social structure. American Journal of Sociology, 85, 551-575
27. Hochschild, A.R. (1983). The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press
28. Homans, G.C. (1961). Social behavior: Its elementary forms. New York: Harcourt Brace & World
29. Houser, J.A., & Lovaglia, M.J. (2003). Status, emotion, and the development of solidarity in stratified task groups. Advances in Group Processes, 19, 109-137
30. Jasso, G. (1993). Choice and emotion in comparison theory. Rationality and Society, 5, 231-274
31. Kemper, T.D. (1978 a). A social interactional theory of emotions. New York: Wiley
32. Kemper, T.D. (1978 b). Toward a sociology of emotions: Some problems and some solutions. The American Sociologist, 13, 30-41
33. Kemper, T.D. (1987). How many emotions are there? American Journal of Sociology, 93, 263-289
34. Kemper, T.D., & Collins, R. (1990). Dimensions of microinteraction. American Journal of Sociology, 96, 32-68
35. Lawler, E.J. (2001). An affect theory of social exchange. American Journal of Sociology, 107, 321-352
36. Lawler, E.J., & Yoon, J. (1993). Power and the emergence of commitment behavior in negotiated exchange. American Sociological Review, 58, 465-481
37. Lawler, E.J., & Yoon, J. (1996). Commitment in exchange relations: A test of a theory of relational cohesion. American Sociological Review, 61, 89-108
38. Lawler, E. J., & Yoon, J. (1998). Network structure and emotion in exchange relations. American Sociological Review, 63, 871-894
39. Lazarus, R. S. (1991). Emotion and adaptation. New York: Oxford University Press
40. LeDoux, J. (1996). The emotional brain: The mysterious underpinnings of emotional life. New York: Simon & Schuster
41. Lovaglia, M.J., & Houser, J.A. (1996). Emotional reactions and status in groups. American Sociological Review, 61, 867-883
42. Mandler, G. (1975). Mind and emotion. New York: Wiley
43. McCall, G.J., & Simmons, J.L. (1978). Identities and interactions. New York: Free Press
44. Mead, G.H. (1934). Mind, self, and society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
45. Molm, L.D. (1997). Coercive power in exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
46. Plutchik, R. (1980). Emotion: A psychoevolutionary synthesis. New York: Harper & Row
47. Ridgeway, C.L. (1994). Affect. In M. Foschi & E. J. Lawler (Eds.), Group processes: Sociological analyses (pp. 205-230). Chicago, IL: Nelson Hall
48. Ridgeway, C.L., & Johnson, C. (1990). What is the relationship between socioemotional behavior and status in task group? American Journal of Sociology, 95, 1189-1212
49. Rosenberg, M. (1990). Reflexivity and emotions. Social Psychology Quarterly, 53, 3-12
50. Scheff, T.J. (1979). Catharsis in heading, ritual, and drama. Berkeley: University of California Press
51. Scheff, T.J. (1988). Shame and conformity: The deference-emotion system. American Sociological Review, 53, 395-406
52. Scheff, T.J. (1994). Bloody revenge: Emotions, nationalism, and war. Boulder, CO: Westview
53. Shelly, R.K. (1993). How sentiments organize interaction. Advances in Group Processes, 16, 113-132
54. Shelly, R.K. (2001). How performance expectations arise from sentiments. Social Psychology Quarterly, 64, 72-87
55. Shelly, R.K. (2004). Emotions, sentiments, and performance expectations. Advances in Group Processes, 21, 141-165
56. Shott, S. (1979). Emotion and social life: A symbolic interactionist analysis. American Journal of Sociology, 84, 1317-1334
57. Smith-Lovin, L. (1990). Emotion as the confirmation and disconfirmation of identity: An affect control model. In T. D. Kemper (Ed.), Research agendas in the sociology of emotions (pp. 238-270). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press
58. Smith-Lovin, L., & Heise, D.R. (1988). Analyzing social interaction: Advances in affect control theory. New York: Gordon & Breach
59. Stets, J.E. (2005). Examining emotions in identity theory. Social Psychology Quarterly, 68, 302-315
60. Stets, J. E., & Turner, J. H. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of the sociology of emotions. New York: Springer
61. Stryker, S. (1980). Symbolic interactionism: A social structural version. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin Cummings
62. Stryker, S. (2004). Integrating emotion into identity theory. Advances in Group Processes, 21, 1-23
63. Summers-Effler, E. (2002). The micro potential for social change: Emotion, consciousness, and social movement formation. Sociological Theory, 20, 41-60
64. Summers-Effler, E. (2004 a). Defensive strategies: The formation and social implications of patterned self-destructive behavior. Advances in Group Processes, 21, 309-325
65. Summers-Effler, E. (2004 b). Radical saints and reformer heroes: Culture, interaction, and emotional intensity in altruistic social movement organizations. Unpublished dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
66. Thamm, R. (2004). Towards a universal power and status theory of emotion. Advances in Group Processes, 21, 189-222
67. Thoits, P.A. (1990). Emotional deviance: Research agendas. In T. D. Kemper (Ed.), Research agendas in the sociology of emotions (pp. 180-203). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press
68. Thye, S.R., Yoon, J., & Lawler, E.J. (2002). The theory of relational cohesion: Review of a research program. Advances in Group Processes, 19, 139-166
69. Turner, J.H. (1999). Toward a general sociological theory of emotions. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 29, 132-162
70. Turner, J.H. (2000). On the origins of human emotions: A sociological inquiry into the evolution of human affect. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
71. Turner, J.H. (2002). Face-to-face: Towards a sociological theory of interpersonal behavior. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
72. Turner, J.H. (2007). Human emotions: A sociological theory. London: Routledge
73. Turner, J.H. (in press). The stratification of emotions: Some preliminary generalizations. Sociological Inquiry
74. Turner, J.H., & Stets, J.E. (2005). The sociology of emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
75. Turner J., & Stets, J. (2006). The moral emotions. In J. E. Stets & J. H. Turner (Eds.), Handbook of the sociology of emotions (pp. 544-568). New York: Springer
76. Wentworth, W.M., & Ryan, J. (1992). Balancing body, mind and culture: The place of emotion in social life. In D. D. Franks & V. Gecas (Eds.), Social perspectives on emotion (pp. 25-46). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press
77. Wentworth, W.M., & Ryan, J. (1994). Introduction. In D. D. Franks, W. M. Wentworth & J. Ryan (Eds.), Social perspectives on emotion (pp. 1-17). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press
78. Wentworth, W.M., & Yardly, D. (1994). Deep sociality: A bioevolutionary perspective on the sociology of human emotions. In D. D. Franks, W. M. Wentworth & J. Ryan (Eds.), Social perspectives on emotion (pp. 21-55). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press