week 5 slides

Question 1

case study (topless dancers)

Answer 1

• managing stigma in a deviant occupation

- division of social worlds and techniques of neutralization

Question 2

affect

Answer 2

-any subjective positive or negative evaluation of something

Question 3

emotions

Answer 3

• short lived reactions to some type of stimulus
• thoits and the 4 components of emotions
  1. a situation stimulus
  2. physiological changes
  3. expressuve gesturing of some kind
  4. a label to identify a cluster of the first three

Question 4

sentiment

Answer 4

• social aspect of emotions

- longer term than emotions (love, grief)

Question 5

moods

Answer 5

• longer lasting

- emotional orientation that lasts for hours or days

Question 6

classical understaning of where emotions come from

Answer 6

• non social
• charles darwin (genetically encoded, if humans and animals had shared ancestors, they could have shared emotions)
• sigmund freud (emotions can develop unconsciosuly)

Question 7

argued that emotions may be universal if:

Answer 7

• similar facial expressuons are produced by the same emotional state across individuals
• facial expressions are identified by many observers as meaning the same thing

Question 8

Ekman identified six universal emotions:

Answer 8

• happiness
• sadness
• surprise
• fear
• anger
• disgust
• contempt added in the 80s

Question 9

action units

Answer 9

• sets of movements among a particular configuration of facial muscles
• crucial to expressing/reading emotions

Question 10

cultural differences

Answer 10

• not all emotions are universal (germans have a word for vicarious embarrassement)
• emotional socialization (gender socialization)
• display rules (cultural norms telling us how to modify our facial expressions to fit)

Question 11

emotion work

Answer 11

• an attempt to change the intensity or quality of feelings to bring them into line with the requirements of the occasion
• feeling rules (what people with certain roles should feel)
• surface acting (changing expression of our emotion)
• deep acting (transforms our emotional state)
• emotion labour (when emotion work is done for pay, ie flight attendants)

Question 12

social emotions

Answer 12

1. require an awareness of oneself im the social context
2. emerge out of interaction with at least one other actor
3. are often experienced in reference to some kind of societal standard

Question 13

five social emotions

Answer 13

• guilt
• shame
• love
• jealousy
• embarrassement