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Collective Emotions (Hardcover)
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Collective Emotions (Hardcover)
Series: Series in Affective Science
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Although collective emotions have a long tradition in scientific
inquiry, for instance in mass psychology and the sociology of
rituals and social movements, their importance for individuals and
the social world has never been more obvious than in the past
decades. The Arab Spring revolution, the Occupy Wall Street
movement, and mass gatherings at music festivals or mega sports
events clearly show the impact collective emotions have both in
terms of driving conflict and in uniting people. But these examples
only show the most obvious and evident forms of collective
emotions. Others are more subtle, although less important: shared
moods, emotional atmospheres, and intergroup emotions are part and
parcel of our social life. Although these phenomena go hand in hand
with any formation of sociality, they are little understood.
Moreover, there still is a large gap in our understanding of
individual emotions on the one hand and collective emotional
phenomena on the other hand. This book presents a comprehensive
overview of contemporary theories and research on collective
emotions. It spans several disciplines and brings together, for the
first time, various strands of inquiry and up-to-date research in
the study of collective emotions and related phenomena. In focusing
on conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues in collective
emotion research, the volume narrows the gap between the wealth of
studies on individual emotions and inquiries into collective
emotions. The book catches up with a renewed interest into the
collective dimensions of emotions and their close relatives, for
example emotional climates, atmospheres, communities, and
intergroup emotions. This interest is propelled by a more general
increase in research on the social and interpersonal aspects of
emotion on the one hand, and by trends in philosophy and cognitive
science towards refined conceptual analyses of collective entities
and the collective properties of cognition on the other hand. The
book includes sections on: Conceptual Perspectives; Collective
Emotion in Face-to-Face Interactions; The Social-Relational
Dimension of Collective Emotion; The Social Consequences of
Collective Emotions; Group-Based and Intergroup Emotion; Rituals,
Movements, and Social Organization; and Collective Emotions in
Online Social Systems. Including contributions from psychologists,
philosophers, sociologists, and neuroscience, this volume is a
unique and valuable contribution to the affective sciences
literature.
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