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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Sociology of emotions."”.
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Meaning of forgiveness: analysing political and sexual violence cases
This study investigates the meaning of forgiveness in instances of political and sexual violence in contemporary South Africa. Truth Reconciliation Commission (TRC) proceedings about the well known St James church massacre, Brian Mitchell, and Thapelo Mbelo case guide my understanding of the role …
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Rediscovering the classical roots in the sociology of emotion: Comte, Pareto, and Durkheim
… substantiate a classical grounding for the sociology of emotions, that is, to show that there is a breadth of material in the classical repertoire that has gone untapped by contemporary scholars of emotion, and further, that this neglected material may inform current discussions of emotions. …
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Challenging occupational norms : an ethnographic study of female prison officers in a women's prison
Female prison officers have an important role to play in the lives of the imprisoned women they are charged with ‘looking after’. This thesis draws upon 64 days of research, over 35 weeks, over a 12-month period to produce a unique ethnographic study of female frontline officers responsible for …
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Parasocial Grief and Humor: Coping with Death Through the Internet’s Native Language
… in which an individual grieves the death of a public figure they do not know personally. Anticipatory parasocial grief references the expectation of losing this one-sided relationship. As these experiences are shared on social media, there is an opportunity to observe how grief is …
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"Blind to Certain Truths": Social Movement Narratives, The Supreme Court, and Cultural Change
… effect cultural change through the reification of their stories. Lesbian, gay and bisexuals form one group of storytellers whose "collective stories" are told. It is this set of stories that this paper investigates, following the "narrative turn" in sociology to analyze LGB social movement …
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Queer(y)ing the Politics of Offence: An Exploration of the Phenomenological Texture of Feeling in Higher Education
… increasing concern has been focussed on the ‘offendability’ or ‘sensitivity’ of students on university campuses – a concern that has largely been captured in the notion of an ongoing ‘culture war’. Critical voices within the media and in government – as well as in academia – claim there has …
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Effervescence and solidarity in religious organizations.
… interaction ritual theory in the context of religious organizations. The theory proposes that optimal management of bodily copresence, intersubjectivity, and barriers to outsiders stimulates collective effervescence and social solidarity. I use mixed methods to test the theory. In the …