Symbolic Interactionism, Inequality, and Emotions

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 155-178

  Fields, Jessica ^a   Copp, Martha ^b   Kleinman, Sherryl ^c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Sociology ^*

Author keywords

Emotional Experience; Emotional Labor; Identity Work; Sexual Harassment; Symbolic Interactionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85125948016     PISSN: 13896903     EISSN: 2542839X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-30715-2_8     Document Type: Chapter

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