The Social Life of Emotions [Hardcover]

This book examines the interplay of emotions and social relationships.Emotions cannot be understood as separate from the social relantionships and groups where they occur since the social world is defined by emotion and emotions are defined by the social world. This book examines the interplay of emotions and social relantionships. The chapters discuss ways in which relationships generate emotions, ways in which relationships and social life constrain people's emotions, and how emotions constitute social relationships. Together, the chapters present a view of emotions that locates them in their social context.Emotions cannot be understood as separate from the social relantionships and groups where they occur since the social world is defined by emotion and emotions are defined by the social world. This book examines the interplay of emotions and social relantionships. The chapters discuss ways in which relationships generate emotions, ways in which relationships and social life constrain people's emotions, and how emotions constitute social relationships. Together, the chapters present a view of emotions that locates them in their social context.Emotions cannot be understood independently of the social relationships and groups where they occur since the social world is defined by emotion and emotions are defined by the social world. This book examines the interplay of emotions and social relationships by analyzing the ways in which relationships generate emotions, the role of relationships and social life in constraining people's emotions, and how emotions constitute social relationships.Introduction: a world of emotion; Part I. The Interpersonal Context: 1. Empathy: negotiating the border between self and other Mark Davis; 2. Envy and its transmutations Richard H. Smith; 3. The bond threat sequence: discourse evidence for the systematic interdependence of shame and social relationships David S. Fearon Jr.; 4. Emotion as adaptive interpersonal communication: the caslƒ9