Exploring Emotions in Social Life

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research is concerned with topics such as crime, utopia, ethics, death and dying, palliative care, qualitative methods and social theory. His recent publications include Emotions, Everyday Life and Sociology, Emotions in Culture and Everyday Life, Postmortal Society, The Interactionist Imagination and The Age of Spectacular Death.

• Preface and acknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction Emotions, society and the emotionalisation of societyMichael Hviid JacobsenChapter 1 Happiness- Emotion, critique and the future Jordan McKenzieChapter 2 Empathy- Putting yourself in someone else’s shoesNatalia Ruiz-JuncoChapter 3 Freedom- Feeling free in an (un)free worldGunnar Colbjørnsen Aakvaag and Michael Hviid JacobsenChapter 4 Desire- The pursuit of physical, psychological, interpersonal (and sexual) pleasureCheryl Harasymchuk, Pamela C. Regan and Susan SprecherChapter 5 Jealousy- Exploring the ‘green-eyed monster’Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Inger Glavind BoChapter 6 Insecurity- An enduring feeling of self-threatValérie de Courville NicolChapter 7 Guilt- Identity management in response to illegitimate social behaviourNobuhiko Goto and Mark A. FergusonChapter 8 Disgust- Reflections on the nauseating feeling of revulsion and repulsionMichael Hviid JacobsenChapter 9 Humiliation- The forgotten emotionBettina MuensterChapter 10 Pain- From physical pain to social sufferingMichael Hviid Jacobsen, Inger Glavind Bo and Vibeke GravenChapter 11 Despair- Contemplating the abyssRowena Ann PeccheninoChapter 12 Unemotionality- Absence, emptiness and affective insensitivity Tom RobertsIndex