Social Perspectives on Emotion

Part 1 Brain-body issues: deep sociality - a bioevolutionary perspective on the sociology of emotions, William M. Wentworth and Darrell Yardley; arousal - crossroads of social psychology and neuropsychology, Don Tucker and Joseph Dien; emotion as mediator of somatic and social processes - the example of respiration, Margot L. Lyon. Part 2 Interpersonal / microstructural issues: ritual emotion and body work - a note on the uses of Durkheim, J.M. Barbalet; conflicting reality readings and interactional dilemmas - the conceptual model, love relationships (his, hers and their), Candace Clark et al. Part 3 Macrostructural / historical issues - theoretical: emotions - a cross-cultural perspective on fabric of forms of life, Jaap van Brakel; historical issues in emotions research - causation and timing, Peter N. Stearns and Deborah C. Stearns; the social construction of emotions - new directions from culture theory, E. Doyle McCarthy; structural realities, persistent dilemmas, and the construction of emotional paradigms - love in three cultures, Steve Derne.