INTRODUCTION: SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Abstract

The articles in this Special Issue of the IJSSP, entitled ‘Sociology of Emotions’, were, with two exceptions, presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association held in Washington, D.C., U.S.A., from August 19–23, 1995. These outstanding papers do much to develop the theoretical grounding of two closely related fields of inquiry ‐ the social psychology of emotions and the sociology of emotions. No social relations are carried out in the absence of either thought or emotion. It immediately follows that the sociology of emotions is not so much a nascent, exotic sub‐discipline of sociology as it is a level of analysis that must be carried out if meaning is to be found in any social system, in any social process, or in any social relationship of the everyday world.

Citation

Tenhouten, W.D. (1996), "INTRODUCTION: SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 16 No. 9/10, pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013267