Affect and emotion : a new social science understanding / Margaret Wetherell.

By:

Wetherell, Margaret, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2012.Description: 182 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

085702857X (pbk.)
9780857028570 (pbk.)

Other title:

New social science understanding

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DDC classification:

152.4 WET

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	152.4 WET (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100444463

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Absolutely essential reading for those wanting to understand the recent ′turn′ to affect. Offering an extensive analysis of all the perspectives available, including the psycho, neuro, bio and social, Margie Wetherell treads a magisterial path through the radically different offerings, one that illuminates key ideas and will save the uninitiated wandering down many pointless avenues. A path-setting book."- Professor Beverley Skeggs, GoldsmithsIn recent years there has been a huge surge of interest in affect and emotion. Scholars want to discover how people are moved, and understand embodied social action, feelings and passions. How do social formations ′grab′ people? How do roller coasters of contempt, patriotism, hate and euphoria power public life?A new social science understanding of affect and emotion is long overdue and Margaret Wetherell′s voice is timely, providing a coherent and pragmatic text. It will be invaluable reading for those interested in this fascinating field across the social and behavioural sciences.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-176) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgements (p. viii)
Chapter 1 Introducing Affect: Lines of Argument (p. 1)
Chapter 2 Bodying Affect: Affective Flows and Their Psychobiological Figuring (p. 27)
Chapter 3 Negotiating Affect: Discourse, Representation and Affective Meaning-Making (p. 51)
Chapter 4 Situating Affect: Interaction, Accountability and the Present Moment (p. 77)
Chapter 5 Solidifying Affect: Structures of Feeling, Habitus and Emotional Capital (p. 102)
Chapter 6 Personalising Affect: Relational Histories, Subjectivities and the Psychosocial (p. 120)
Chapter 7 Circulating Affect: Waves of Feeling, Contagion and Affective Transmission (p. 140)
References (p. 161)
Index (p. 177)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Margaret Wetherell is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University, UK and Professor in Social Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand.