Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Social emotions


“Key ideas from expectation-states theory, symbolic interactionism, dramaturgical analysis, power-status theories, attribution theory, and psychoanalytic theories are combined in an effort to generate a more general theory of emotional arousal in face-to-face interaction.” Jonathan H. Turner (1999) 
Toward a General Sociological Theory of Emotions 
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 29 (2), 133–161.