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The Problem of Emotions in Societies (Paperback)
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The Problem of Emotions in Societies (Paperback)
Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues
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Like any other valued resource, emotions are distributed unequally.
Moreover, emotions are a generalized resource because they give
people the confidence, or lack of confidence, to secure additional
types of resources. Thus, this distribution of emotions roughly
corresponds to the shares of others kinds of resources that members
of various social classes possess. The level of positive and
negative emotional energy evident among members of different social
classes has large consequences for the viability of human
societies. When a large majority of members in diverse social
classes have reservoirs of positive emotional energy, these
emotions work to legitimate macrostructures and to build people's
commitments to societies. When, however, significant numbers of
persons in lower social classes, and at times in middle to upper
social classes as well, reveal reservoirs of negative emotional
energy, they are likely to de-legitimate key institutional systems
and, under specifiable conditions, mobilize collective-often with
violent outcomes. Thus, emotions are at the core of both
integrative and disintegrative forces in societies, and when large
reservoirs of negative emotional energy exist, they pose a problem
for societies. The goal of this new, unique Series is to offer
readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today's social problems
and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60 page or
shorter formats, and available for view on http:
//routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html For
instructors teaching a wide range of courses in the social
sciences, the Routledge Social Issues Collection now offers the
best of both worlds: originally written short texts that provide
"overviews" to important social issues as well as teachable
excerpts from larger works previously published by Routledge and
other presses.
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