Emotional Lives

Dramas of Identity in an Age of Mass Media

By:

E.Doyle McCarthy

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction

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Emotional Lives explores the changes in emotional cultures that have taken place during the last half century and continue to affect people's identities today. These changes are driven by the culture of consumerism in contemporary post-industrial society and by the emergence of new ideas about public and private life in a time when media culture generates new forms of social relationships and deep personal attachments to celebrity figures. McCarthy shows that people are drawn to public life, not only for entertainment and pleasure but also for its dramas, for memorializing events like disasters, acts of violence, and victimhood. McCarthy's cultural-sociological approach provides new insights about emotions as 'social things' and reveals how today's mass media is an important force for cultural change, including changes in people's relationships, identities, and emotions.

Author Biography:

E. Doyle McCarthy is Professor of Sociology at Fordham University, New York. She has worked and published in the fields of the sociology of knowledge and emotion studies. She serves on the editorial board of La Critica Sociologia, an international journal in the social sciences, and was previously the senior editor of the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. She was elected chair of the Emotions Section of the American Sociological Association, and served on the executive committee of the International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE) from 2004 to 2007.

Release date Australia

December 20th, 2018

Author

E.Doyle McCarthy

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

182

Series

Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction

Dimensions

152x229x12

ISBN-13

9780521526333

Product ID

10377108

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