The emotions that human beings experience play a fundamental role in all social
phenomena. As a result, sociology needs to incorporate the analysis of affective structures�…

Recent work in the sociology of emotions has gone beyond the development of concepts
and broad perspectives to elaboration of theory and some empirical research. More work�…

Within sociology, the study of emotions is a comparatively recent field of specialization, first
emerging in its modern form in the 1970s (Heise, 1979; Hochschild, 1979; Kemper, 1978)�…

The sociology of emotions is an established specialism within the discipline and its products
have become increasingly visible parts of the sociological landscape since the late 1970s�…

Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions Volume II presents all new chapters in the ever
developing area of the sociology of emotions. The volume is divided into two sections�…

All social relations involve emotional responses, from the simplest face-to-face encounter
through the mobilization of social movements to the commitments that individuals develop�…

Unique in its approach, Invitation to the Sociology of Emotions treats neophytes as its
primary audience, giving students a brief, but thorough, introduction to the sociology of�…

This major theoretical work takes existing work on the emotions in significantly new
directions. It gives a comprehensive account of emotions, beginning with general�…

In this book leading sociologists of emotions present their research agendas for work that
promises to shape the study of emotions well into the next decade. The essays represent the�…

Collins (1975) theorized a central place for emotions in the microdynamics of stratification in
his book Conflict Sociology Of course, lead time on all such work is considerable, therefore�…