Culture and emotions

Question 1

What is there a complete absence of?

Answer 1

Emotions based analysis.

Question 2

Who embodies emotions: states

Answer 2

Looking at collective emotions.

Question 3

Who embodies emotions: leaders

Answer 3

Theories of personality and leadership. Leaders are like everyone else with childhood experiences.

Question 4

Who embodies emotions: groups

Answer 4

Transcend state boundaries. Neo tribal understanding of emotions. Brexiteers vs remainers. Northerners vs Southerners. Social identity theory. Social categorization theory. Focus on group level.

Question 5

What does foreign affairs: the tribal world argue?

Answer 5

People are reverting to ancient ways of seeing themselves as groups. Less interested in nations, more as tribes.

Question 6

What is all theory?

Answer 6

Shaped by someone and for some purpose. Made by human beings. Childhood experiences. Shape their worldview.

Question 7

What do all authors have?

Answer 7

An agenda and want to spread a certain worldview.

Question 8

What is the rational actor paradigm?

Answer 8

Focus on structure at the cost of the agent. No space to engage with emotions directly in the 1960s onward.

Question 9

Koschut 2022 quote

Answer 9

“Cultural and social institutions regulate and structure individual emotions, biological and evolutionary processes are never completely overridden”.

Question 10

Affect definition

Answer 10

An activity that operates beneath and beyond preconceived social categories of emotion and experience. A state tinged by emotions which cannot be made sense of.

Question 11

What is an affective community?

Answer 11

A community with widely held and collectively understood feelings. Shared patterns of emotional meaning and understanding.

Question 12

What can politicians create?

Answer 12

Certain affective feelings. Exploits emotions to perpetuate their control. Determining mood music w/in the nation and exploiting it for their own benefit.

Question 13

How to access emotions?

Answer 13

Individual level focus, rep and intersubjective communication. Artists and the importance of art. Interactions and intersubjective communication.

Question 14

Emotions as…

Answer 14

Independent variables, dependent variables, “social discourses, normative structures and everyday practices”.

Question 15

Theories of convergence

Answer 15

A bottom-up aggregation of socially shared individual emotions. How people come together against an opponent.

Question 16

Theories of contagion

Answer 16

An involuntary process of infecting others. How in certain settings, certain emotions have more currency and dominance over others. Military: patriotism, pride, heroism, brotherhood, bravery. Emotions such as cowardice are hidden. Feminine vs masculine values. Macho ideals.

Question 17

Theories of governance

Answer 17

Social structures and standards used for compliance. Certain emotions important to enable leaders to build standards for compliance. Social structures and standards. Use emotions to create these, encourage compliance.

Question 18

What is the Asian values thesis?

Answer 18

West has an individualistic understanding of human rights. The East is more collectivist. Application of diff standards. Economic rights vs civic and political. Face saving name and honour. Suppressing dissent and keeping discipline.