Sociology of Emotions

Course Code
ΕΑΡΕΕ33-ΠΨΤ
ECTS Credits
6
Semester
4th / 6th / 8th Semester
Course Category
Professor

ADAMANTIOS SYRMALOGLOU (member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff)

Course Description
LEARNING OUTCOMES

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The purpose of the course is the study of emotions at a micro- and macro-sociological level. Emotions are examined as social constructions, but also as objects of social control, negotiation and social change with reference to class, racial and gender categories. The emotional dimensions in the relationship between man, space, environment as well as the policies that shape this relationship are also analyzed. Emphasis is placed on applied empirical research, which approaches emotions through the sociology of interaction.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • describe the role of emotions at a micro- and macro-sociological level

  • mention factors that affect the social construction of emotions

  • apply Goffman's theory of impression management

  • analyze the key features of theoretical approaches to symbolic interaction 

COURSE CONTENT

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

  1. Introduction to the sociology of emotions (Jonathan H. Turner)
  2. Empirical applied research in the sociology of emotions (Dimitris Paraskevopoulos)
  3. Social dramaturgy and emotions (Erving Goffman)
  4. From ritual to theater. The human gravity of the game (Victor Turner)
  5. The fragility of human bonds (Zygmunt Bauman, Fluid Love)
  6. Emotion, space and environment (Liz Bondi, Joyce Davidson, and Mick Smith eds., Emotional Geographies)
  7. Emotions and Theories of Gender (Arlie Russell Hochschild, Eva Illouz, Nancy Chodorow, Dorothy Smith, Patricia Collins)
  8. Inequalities of emotional experiences
  9. The role of emotions in politics
  10. The role of emotions in the economy
  11. Emotions and social change
  12. Social Patterns and Emotions (Case Study)
  13. Institutions and emotional experiences (case study)
EVALUATION

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

  • Written assignment - 100% (on a topic announced at the beginning of the semester)
TEACHING - LEARNING METHODS
  • Face-to-face
  • Use of ICT in teaching
  • Use of ICT when communicating with students.
  • Communication with students via email and through an electronic chat space in the e-class.
eCLASS COURSE

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/4205/ 

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

  • Goffman Erving (2006) The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life, Athens: Alexandria Publications

  • Baumann Zygmund (2011) Fluid love. About the fragility of human bonds. Hestia Publications

Extra Bibliography

  • Journal I - Emotions and Society

  • Journal II - Emotion, Space and Society