SOC388H1 Lecture Notes - Erving Goffman, Upper Class, Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions
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Today we are looking at emotions with a sociological spin. Looked at emotions throughout the whole course many of the text talked about emotions as something that has happened in the past. E. g. embarrassment, becoming an ex and the emotions around this. Tells us about the social norms that guide emotions, in goffman some of the ways we manage emotions. Today, talking about them as a physical embodied experience. Not as something remembered and re counted but something experienced in the moment. The views up until that we looked at saw the self as a response to someone else. Hallett adds new dimension, not just a response to an input. Jack katz how emotions work katz wrote an entire book about emotions and devoted each chapter to an emotion. Presented emotions as something from the outside and beyond our control. At the same time part of our intimately subjected lives. Even though experience is internal, they come from the outside.
