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Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural and mixed approaches. Offering entrancing short essays, from leading contributors the book is interdisciplinary in scope and will become the necessary refere

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Addressing issues of emotion in social movements, this internationally oriented volume should appeal to both sociologists and political activists, given its broad approach and unique emphasis on emotions in protest, dissent and social movements.

Addressing issues of emotion in social movements, this internationally oriented volume will appeal to both sociologists and political activists given its broad approach and unique emphasis on emotions in protest, dissent and social movements.

In der Migrationsforschung nimmt die Untersuchung von institutionellen Diskriminierungen bisher nur einen kleinen Teil ein. Das Leipziger Forschungsteam unter der Leitung von Helena Flam schließt diese Lücke durch einen kritischen Überblick über relevante Diskriminierungstheorien und -studien. Ausführlich werden außerdem die Untersuchungen und Ergebnisse des EU-Forschungsprojekts in den Bereichen Bildungssystem und Arbeitsmarkt vorgestellt. We...

There are many established theories concerning political quiescence and dissent in Soviet-era eastern Europe. This book--drawing on newly accessible archival data and over one hundred interviews conducted with communists, dissidents, and by-standers in Poland and East Germany--challenges them. The author grounds her interview material in a solid knowledge of the Soviet systems which evolved in contrasting ways in the two countries. She conclud...

Explaining the complexity of social life remains the central challenge of the social sciences. This book offers a variety of theoretical-empirical explorations and applications inspired by an important neo-institutional approach to tackling this complexity - the rule systems theory. Its point of departure is the assumption that institutions and cultural formations possess causal powers and relative autonomy, constraining and enabling people's ...

This book presents three social action models - rational, normative and emotional. It proposes the emotional model of social action and shows the many ways in which social structures, formal organizations and social movements are pervaded by emotions. The core of the book contains three empirical case studies focused on the question of how emotions, interests and symbolic worlds account for conformism and defiance. Its last part assesses the c...

Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural and mixed approaches. Offering entrancing short essays, from leading contributors the book is interdisciplinary in scope and will become the necessary reference book for the ever expanding number of researchers venturing into the area of emotion and a steady companio...