Any gesture—a cool greeting, an appreciative laugh, the apology for an outburst—is measured against a prior sense of what is reasonably owed another, given the sort of bond involved. Against this background measure, some gestures will seem more than ample, others less. The exchange of ges­tures has in turn two aspects. It is an exchange […]

Any gesture—a cool greeting, an appreciative laugh, the apology for an outburst—is measured against a prior sense of what is reasonably owed another, given the sort of bond involved. Against this background measure, some gestures will seem more than ample, others less. The exchange of ges­tures has in turn two aspects. It is an exchange […]

Rules for managing feeling are implicit in any ideological stance: they are the “bottom side” of ideology. Ideology has often been construed as a flatly cognitive framework, lacking implications for how we feel. Yet, drawing on Emile Durkheiin, Clifford Geertz, and Erving Goffman, we can think of ide­ology as an interpretive framework that can be […]

Rules for managing feeling are implicit in any ideological stance: they are the “bottom side” of ideology. Ideology has often been construed as a flatly cognitive framework, lacking implications for how we feel. Yet, drawing on Emile Durkheiin, Clifford Geertz, and Erving Goffman, we can think of ide­ology as an interpretive framework that can be […]

We feel. We try to feel. We want to try to feel. The social guidelines that direct how we want to try to feel may be describable as a set of socially shared, albeit often latent (not thought about unless probed at), rules. In what way, we may ask, are these rules themselves known and […]

We feel. We try to feel. We want to try to feel. The social guidelines that direct how we want to try to feel may be describable as a set of socially shared, albeit often latent (not thought about unless probed at), rules. In what way, we may ask, are these rules themselves known and […]

So what do we assume is true about emotion? There is the organismic account and there is the interactwe account. They differ in what they imply about our capacity to manage emotion, and thus in what they imply about the importance of rules about managing it. According to the organismic view, the paramount questions concern […]

So what do we assume is true about emotion? There is the organismic account and there is the interactwe account. They differ in what they imply about our capacity to manage emotion, and thus in what they imply about the importance of rules about managing it. According to the organismic view, the paramount questions concern […]

Why is the emotive experience of normal adults in daily life as orderly as it is? Why, generally speaking, do people feel gay at parties, sad at funerals, happy at weddings? This question leads us to examine not conventions of appear­ance or outward comportment, but conventions oi feeling. Conventions of feeling become surprising only when […]

Why is the emotive experience of normal adults in daily life as orderly as it is? Why, generally speaking, do people feel gay at parties, sad at funerals, happy at weddings? This question leads us to examine not conventions of appear­ance or outward comportment, but conventions oi feeling. Conventions of feeling become surprising only when […]