SO 212 - Sociology of Emotions

Credits: 4
While emotions are typically considered irrational, ephemeral, and therefore irrelevant to the real business of social life, this course considers how emotions serve as social glue, creating groups, institutions, identities, and social structures. Emotions are studied in a variety of everyday social settings from loneliness in the workplace and love in sexual life, to the envy of status competition, the hatred of intergroup conflict, and the greed of capitalist enterprise. Readings engage questions of personhood, intimacy, and collective life but also conflict, enmity, and resistance and struggle.

Liberal Arts Perspective(s): Social and Psychological
Foundations Requirement(s):