Ahmed, Sara. 2012. 'Sociable Happiness'. In: Dale Spencer; Kevin Walby and Alan Hunt, eds. Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1442612532 [Book Section]

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The sociology of emotions has recently undergone a renaissance, raising new questions for the social sciences: How should we define and study emotions? How are emotions related to perennial sociological debates about structure, power, and agency? Emotions Matter brings together leading international scholars to build on and extend sociological understandings of emotions.Moving beyond reductionist approaches that frame emotions as idiosyncratic states of mind, the scholars in this collection conceptualize emotions as the experience of social relations. Empirical and theoretical chapters demonstrate how emotions relate to sociological theories of interaction, the body, gender, and communication. Pushing the boundaries of sociology and stimulating debate for related fields, Emotions Matter offers diverse relational approaches that illustrate the crucial importance of emotions to the sociological imagination.

Item Type:	Book Section
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 2012 Published
Item ID:	13930
Date Deposited:	06 Oct 2015 12:21
Last Modified:	22 Apr 2016 16:39
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/13930

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