Exploring Emotions in Social Life

Download or read book Exploring Emotions in Social Life written by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a broad range of studies on a variety of emotions from social scientific perspectives. Bringing together scholars from disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology and philosophy, it examines emotions including desire, empathy, freedom, happiness, hate, disgust, humiliation, guilt, unemotionality and despair, exploring the main facets of these emotions and considering the ways in which they are manifested and folded into our cultural and social lives. It will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in emotion, affect and contemporary culture.