In this highly readable book, Doyle Mc Carthy covers some of the main ways that emotions have become important in our global societies. She explains that emotional culture is important for understanding today’s world, its markets, its politics and its mass media. To live today is to be emotionally intelligent in our relations and in our workplaces. In the modern age, global capitalism and mass media have shaped our emotions and made us more emotional. Public life has become a place where we search out emotional happenings: at shopping malls, concerts, sports events, memorials to death and disaster and in the pursuit of sports.
Table of Content
Preface; 1. Introduction: On Individualism and Emotions; 2. What Is Modernity? How the Modern World Shaped Our Emotions?; 3. Emotional Cultures: Understanding the Concept; 4. The Authenticity of Emotions Today; 5. Today’s Emotional Pursuits and Their Markets; 6. Concluding Thoughts: Studying Emotions as Culture; Sources and Further Readings; Index
About the author
Doyle Mc Carthy is professor emerita of sociology and American studies at Fordham University, New York. Her areas of research and writing include social theories of modernity, sociology of knowledge and emotion studies.
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