Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000003
Iveta Ķešāne, Liene Ozoliņa
This study integrates the literature on neoliberal subjectivities with the sociology of emotions, and particularly the notion of feeling rules, to understand the political subjectivity expressions in Latvia where the post-Soviet neoliberal development brought high income and wealth inequality. We specifically ask what the relationship between collective emotions and neoliberal political subjectivity in post-Soviet space is. Based on our empirical data, we construct three ideal types of political subjectivities wherein each holds a different narrative about the neoliberal state. We show the first two dominated among our respondents in Latvia while the third was prevalent among emigrant Latvians. We find that respondents’ narratives dominant at home were framed by neoliberal feeling rules which fostered optimistic thinking (narrative of resilience) and feelings of individual responsibility (narrative of legitimating) silencing the emotion of anger necessary to form a critical democratic dialogue with the state. Meanwhile, emigrant Latvians voiced a more socially and politically aware critique towards the Latvian state, austerity politics and social injustice (narrative of anger). We provide implications for this theory of post-Soviet political subjectivities at the end.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2023d000000001
Kylie M. Smith
Various studies have examined emotional labour’s positive and negative aspects, but the structural conditions under which people experience emotional labour as fulfilling vs. taxing are underexplored. In this study, I use interviews with graduate students – a group whose relative social status changes routinely – to illuminate the types of emotion work that occasion positive and negative feelings. I find that graduate students often felt positive when performing emotional labour down the academic hierarchy to undergraduate students but felt negative about their emotional labour when performing it up the academic hierarchy to professors. I also find that women, people of colour and international students find their emotional labour particularly distressing when they perceive it to be an expectation of their marginalised social identity. Using identity theory, I show how status dynamics underlie people's emotional reactions when their identities are at risk of being disconfirmed. This research study contributes to the field of the sociology of emotions by specifying that status matters for whether emotional labour is a positive or negative experience for workers.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1332/263169021x16893162013622
Allegra H. Fullerton, Kayla M. Gabehart, J. Yordy, C. Weible
The sociology of emotions reveals how emotion contributes to and helps inform social and political issues. This study contributes to the literature by examining how competing advocacy coalitions ascribe emotions to their allies and opponents in the politically contentious issue of siting a gas pipeline project in the US. It analyses the emotional and belief expressions of people engaged in the debate in approximately 370 newspaper articles. Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework as a theoretical guide, people’s position on the pipeline and assignment to one of two advocacy coalitions coincides with similar emotional expressions. Moreover, allies tend to attribute more positive than negative emotions to other allies and more negative than positive emotions to opponents. This study concludes with a research agenda for furthering the empirical study of emotions in political and social life to understand the use of emotions in contentious politics.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-11DOI: 10.1332/263169021x16889395944329
J. Maldonado
The COVID-19 pandemic saw the implementation of public health measures that caused significant disruption to daily life. Consequently, these measures were met with widespread resistance. It was argued that this resistance was driven by anti-scientific attitudes, as individuals refused to comply with mask mandates and lockdowns, and later resisted vaccination efforts. This article asks whether this is an accurate characterisation of those challenging efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this question, this article draws on fieldwork at medical freedom rallies. These rallies were explicitly organised to challenge policies aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19. The primary finding is that rather than being a conflict between pro- and anti-scientific forces, the conflict instead largely stemmed from who can properly lay claim to the mantle of science. Attendees questioned the legitimacy of the science justifying limitations on their personal liberty and suggested that extra-scientific concerns such as a desire for political control had compromised the objectivity of public health experts. This work contributes to ongoing debates concerning institutional trust and the role of expertise in democratic governance.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1332/263169021x16859806223424
Ali Romdhani, V. Van Tilbeurgh
Social conflicts have been largely studied according to their rational aspect, looking at arguments and strategies mobilised by rationally engaged actors. However, land-use conflicts over animal husbandry in Brittany have shown that a pre-reflexive element comes into play, motivating action before justification. Emotions are a ‘forgotten variable’ of individual and collective action that can be fruitfully grasped in a relational approach, as a component of any social relations. In this article, we propose a theoretical framework to understand the role of emotions in social conflicts. The focus is on situations where people engage in conflict rather than avoid it. We base our framework on Dewey’s account of emotions as a ‘disruption in routine’ and rational thinking as an effort to readjust. To fully grasp the dynamics of conflict, we also suggest that the processes of emotional revision, routine, trust and values are essential components of collective action in situations of conflict.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1332/263169021x16867400688718
Pol Comellas Sáenz
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1332/263169021x16831258642176
M. Holmes, Å. Wettergren, N. Manning
Waffles and sausages and summer rain. It is pleasantly warm in Hamburg and the pavement has that smell that comes after a rain shower. The city emits a host of other city-in-the-summer smells, sending each of us back to past times. Someone remembers the happiness of walking home from school on steaming, wet-smelling tarmac. A woman is smiling at the memory of eating waffles in the park, the syrup running down her chin. A man stops to sniff the smell of sausages in the air, not quite like the ones at ‘home’. Suddenly he feels homesick. At the university, a conference begins: the smell of linoleum blends with the particular aroma of coffee poured out of a university catering flask. Standing next to the coffee are colleagues from the Emotions Research Network in their full corporeal form. Some are taller than we remember; we have to lean up for the hug. Others have a smile that is just so good to see in person. As we encounter each other and interact after two years of online conferences, the importance of the full range of our senses becomes clear and the feelings and memories flow. The European Sociological Association Emotions Research Network (ESA RN11) is having its mid-term meeting in Hamburg. It is the end of August 2022, and with a mixture of alarm and delight the long-standing members of the network are realising that it will soon be 20 years since our first mid-term in Augsburg, Germany, in 2004. We think back to that time, just 15 of us in a meeting room in a hotel. Smells of breakfast, hotel carpet, beer and meat. We gave papers, but we had more time for discussion. There was much discussion about how to define emotions. What is an emotion? How do we feel? What conceptual tools might be useful for understanding
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Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1332/263169021x16841228834058
Mehr Latif, Pete Simi, Kathleen Blee, Matthew DeMichele
In this article, we present empirical evidence on the cognitive processes underlying racist beliefs and judgement. We draw on 47 life history interviews with former members of White supremacist groups to better understand how social interactions and stimuli from the wider environment inform cognitive pathways or how people think. While we examine both deliberate and intuitive pathways to racist belief, we focus on the intuitive ways that extreme racist beliefs are cognitively processed before, during and after an individual is involved in the White supremacist movement. In doing so, we fill a critical gap in the literature by providing an empirical analysis of intuition. We illustrate the analytic contributions of our approach, and we conclude by drawing on our evidence to elucidate three puzzles, including: (1) why racist beliefs persist; (2) how people draw on implicit beliefs to make explicit judgements; and (3) how explicit beliefs become encoded in intuitive pathways.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1332/263169021x16824558710337
Vanessa Bittner
This article introduces the concept of dialectic icons: public figures who feature in contentious and polarising political discourse. The inflammatory quality of dialectic icons and their role as highly mediated symbols of conflict creates long-lasting emotional energy among audiences, who cluster in ideological camps as a response. However, these audiences can also actively and directly engage in and shape these discourses, particularly through social media. Examples of the public discourse about quarterback-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick’s anthem protests illustrate how the controversiality, newsworthiness, interactivity and visibility of dialectic icons ultimately contribute to social polarisation. By focusing on dialectic icons as proxy battlegrounds for public audiences, this article establishes a useful concept for gaining fresh insights into collective meaning- and truth-making processes.
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