Emotions, Everyday Life and Sociology This volume explores the emotions that are intricately woven into the texture of everyday life and experience. A contribution to the literature on the sociology of emotions, it focuses on the role of emotions as being integral to daily life, broadening our understanding by examining both ‘core’ emotions and those that are often overlooked or omitted from more conventional studies. Bringing together theoretical and empirical studies from scholars across a range of subjects, including sociology, psychology, cultural studies, history,politicsandcognitivescience,thisinternationalcollectioncentreson the ‘everyday-ness’ of emotional experience. Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research is concernedwith topics such as crime, utopia, ethics, death and dying, palliative care, qualitative methods and social theory. His recent publications include BeyondBauman,PostmortalSociety,TheInteractionistImaginationandLiquid Criminology. Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Classical and Contemporary Social Theory publishes rigorous scholarly work that re-discovers the relevance of social theory for contemporary times, demonstrating the enduring importance of theory for modern social issues. The series covers social theory in abroad sense, inviting contributions on both ‘classical’ and modern theory, thus encompassing sociology, without being confined toa singlediscipline. Assuch, work fromacross the socialsciences is welcome, provided that volumes address the social context of particular issues, subjects, or figures and offer new understandings of social reality and the con- tribution of atheorist or school to our understanding ofit. 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Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orin anyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwriting fromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanation withoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguing-in-PublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Jacobsen,MichaelHviid,1971-editor. Title:Emotions,everydaylifeandsociology/editedbyMichael HviidJacobsen. Description:1Edition.|NewYork:Routledge,2018.|Series:Classicaland contemporarysocialtheory|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2018009997|ISBN9781138633339(hbk)|ISBN 9781315207728(ebk) Subjects:LCSH:Socialsciences–Philosophy.|Emotions. Classification:LCCH61.E4562018|DDC302–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018009997 ISBN:978-1-138-63333-9(hbk) ISBN:978-1-315-20772-8(ebk) TypesetinTimesNewRoman byTaylor&FrancisBooks Contents Foreword and acknowledgements vii List of contributors viii Introduction: Emotions, Emotions, Everywhere Emotions! 1 MICHAELHVIIDJACOBSEN 1 Trust: What is it andwhy do we need it? 13 PAULR.WARD 2 Loyalty: The emotion of future expectation, felt now, based on the past 27 JAMESM.CONNOR 3 Dignity:Anexplorationofdignity’sroleandmeaningindailylife 42 BARBARAA.MISZTAL 4 Compassion: Conflicted social feeling and the calling to care 56 IAINWILKINSON 5 Courage: It’s not all about overcoming fear 71 AMIRB.MARVASTI 6 Excitement: Risk and authentic emotion 88 STEPHENLYNG 7 Embarrassment: Experiencing awkward self-awareness in everyday life 104 MICHAELHVIIDJACOBSENANDSØRENKRISTIANSEN 8 Shyness: Self-consciously perceived relative social incompetence 126 SUSIESCOTT 9 Envy: Hostility towards superiors 142 GORDONCLANTON vi Contents 10 Guilt: What’s so good about feeling bad about yourself? 157 VESSELAMISHEVA 11 Anger: An emotion of intent and of desire for change in relationships 176 KEITHOATLEYANDJENNIFERM.JENKINS 12 Grief: The painfulness of permanent human absence 191 ANDERSPETERSENANDMICHAELHVIIDJACOBSEN 13 Boredom: Emptiness in the modern world 209 PATRICKGAMSBY 14 Laziness: From medieval sin to late modern social pathology 225 MICHAELHVIIDJACOBSEN Index 243 Foreword and acknowledgements Itissometimessaid–andafamoussong-lineevenstates–that‘loveisallaround’. Love,however,isnottheonlyemotionpermeatinghumanlife(ifthiswasindeed thecase,thentheworldwouldprobablybeamuchbetterplacetolivethanitcur- rentlyis)–allotheremotionsarealsoallaround:anger,fear,trust,loyalty,envy, jealousy, cynicism, sadness, joy, misery, empathy, laziness, boredom, anger, depression,happiness,embarrassment,shame,guilt,desire,excitement,pride,and soon.Thelistofemotionsistoolongeventoattempttoexhausthere.Thistestifies tothefactthathumanlife–andwithitsociallifeandeverydaylife–issaturated withemotions.Thisbookisasociologicaltributetosomeoftheseemotions. Weliveinemotionaltimes,andeventhoughsomeclaimthattheseareinfact ‘post-emotional times’ (just as they are apparently also ‘post-factual times’), emotionsinanalmostunprecedentedmannerseemtocapturethepublicimagi- nationnotonlyinpoliticsandeverydaylife,butalsoinacademia.Today,torrents ofliteraturedealingwith,dissecting,describingandanalysingemotionsarebeing publishedwithinvarious scientific disciplines and sub-fields, whereas half a cen- turyagohardlyanyonewroteaboutorresearchedemotionsinanydetail.Wenow have the ‘sociology of emotions’, the ‘psychology of emotions’, the ‘social psy- chology of emotions’, the ‘anthropology of emotions’ and the ‘history of emo- tions’, just to mention a few of the areas having paid particular attention to studying emotions. This goes to show that from previously being shunned or practicedprimarilyontheoutskirtsofthesocialsciences,thestudyofemotionsis nowembracedasatopicworthyofacademicattention(eitherinitsownrightoras anintegralpartofotherareasofresearch)evenbyhigh-profileresearchers. In my experience, one of the most important yet nevertheless often dis- regarded emotions in everyday life is thankfulness or gratitude. I would therefore like to extend mygratitude to thebook’s manycontributors, who so willingly have shared their research-based knowledge on different emotions. I would also like to take this opportunity, as always, to thank my two ‘partners in crime’, Alice Salt and Neil Jordan at Routledge, for a professional colla- boration on this volume. It has once again been apleasureworking withyou. Aalborg University, Winter 2017/2018 Michael Hviid Jacobsen Contributors Gordon Clanton has taught Sociology at San Diego State University, United States,since1975.Theauthor/editorofthebookJealousy(1977/1998),heisa pioneerinthe sociological studyofemotions and a founding memberofthe Emotions Section of the American Sociological Association. Other research interestsincludethesociologyofreligionandthesociologyofknowledge. James M. Connor holds a PhD and works at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. He specialises in emotions, organisational culture and behaviour. He has been funded by WADA to research doping and governance in sport and the Australian Research Council to investi- gate cultures of abuse in the military. Patrick Gamsby is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He received his doctorate from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canadawith a dissertation on Henri Lefebvre. His research interests include critical theory, continental philosophy, the history of ideas, environmental thinking, everyday life and scholarly communication. Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published extensivelyon topics such as death and dying, palliative care, emotions, utopia, critique, deviance, interactionism, ethics, criminology, qualitative research and social theory. Jennifer M. Jenkins is the Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education attheUniversityof Toronto,Canada.She researchestherole of family processes in children’s understanding of other minds and their mental health. SørenKristiansenisProfessorofSociologyandAssociateDeanattheFacultyof the Social Sciences at Aalborg University, Denmark. His current research projectsfocusongamblingwithaspecialfocusononlinesimulatedgambling and the relationships between gambling behaviour and the role of social contexts. He has published widely on a range of issues, including deviance, researchmethods,researchethics,socialproblemsandsocialpolicy. List of contributors ix Stephen Lyng is a Professor of Sociology at Carthage College, United States. His major areas of interest are the sociologyof risk, sociologyof the body and sociological theory. He is the author of three books and numerous articles on awide range of issues in these areas of study. Amir B. Marvasti is Associate Professor of Sociology at Penn State Uni- versity, Altoona, United States. His research focuses on the social con- struction and management of identities in everyday life. He also has an active publication record on the pedagogy of qualitative research. VesselaMishevaisProfessorofSociologyatUppsalaUniversity,Sweden.She has published extensively on macrosociological systems theory and the sociology of self-conscious emotions, particularly shame and guilt, the sociology of knowledge, models of scientific development, the emergence of sociology and the theory and tradition of classical symbolic interactionism. Barbara A. Misztal is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, at the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. She has published on the issues of trust, memory, informality, vulnerability, multiple normalities, forgiveness and on the problems of political changes, public intellectuals, democracy and solidarity. Keith Oatley is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada. His main research has been on emotions, and on the effects of reading andwriting fiction. Anders Petersen is Associate Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark.Hehaspublishedextensivelyontopicssuchasdiagnosticculture, socialpathologies,socialcritique,qualitativeresearchandsocialtheory. Susie Scott is Professor of Sociology the University of Sussex, United King- dom. She specialises in symbolic interactionism and dramaturgical theory applied to aspects of self-identity and everyday life. She has published on shyness,totalinstitutions,mentaldisorder,performance art,swimmingand has created the sociology of nothing. Paul R. Ward is Professor of Public Health at Flinders University, Australia. He has published extensively on topics such as trust, risk, equity, ethics, childhood vaccinations, food systems, cancer screening, lay expertise, HIV prevention, qualitative research and social theory. Iain Wilkinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, United Kingdom. He has published extensively on topics such as social suffering, modern humanitarianism, the cultural politics of compassion, social care, risk, anxiety and social theory.