Sociology of emotions - Topics

Does regulating other people's emotions count as a distinct research construct? Why rituals work: synchrony and solidarity and shared feeling What does affective science study that psychology alone does not? Does the field ignore structural causes of misery How do gender norms change the display of sadness and anger? Emotional regimes in authoritarian and democratic states Status and power and the display of anger in organizations Emotional capital and inequality: who can afford to be calm Nationalism and collective pride: how nations feel about themselves Why does one anxious person make an entire room tense? Flight attendant smiles and the original study behind emotional labor Feeling rules: who decides which emotions are appropriate where What are display rules and how much do they differ across cultures? Collective effervescence and why crowds feel electric Emotional socialization: how children learn what to feel and what to show Grief as a social process: mourning rules and who is allowed to grieve Moral panics and the emotional life of societies How fast does an emotion spread through a crowd? Collective joy: what happens in a crowd when a team scores Cross-country happiness rankings and what they leave out Hope in the face of political and climate despair Is positive psychology a science or a self-help industry What Hochschild meant by emotional labor and what it does not mean Interviewing people about emotion: methodological problems in the sociology of emotions Intergenerational trauma: what the children of survivors actually inherit Digital platforms as emotion machines: outrage as an economic product Group pride: national teams and collective identity Activist burnout: what sustained protest does to the people holding a movement together