The Social Life of Emotions

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How do our emotions reflect and affect our social relationships, roles, and structures? How do we feel, manage, express, and share our emotions with others? How do social factors like culture, power, status, and ritual shape our emotional lives? The sociology of emotions contends that emotions are not just personal and psychological experiences, but are at the heart of social life. In this course, we will explore emotions from a variety of sociological perspectives, and apply these perspectives to a variety of sociological phenomena including family formation, job interviews, religious experiences and political movements.