Chapter 8: Internet Resources
“About Face.” Boston Magazine, July 2013
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2013/06/25/emotions-facial-expressions-notrelated/
This news article focuses on psychologist Lisa Barrett’s critique of the work of psychologist
Paul Ekman, whose cross-cultural research on emotions underlies the widely held belief that
the way people express emotions is biologically determined and varies little across societies.
Barrett argues that methodological flaws call into question the validity of Ekman’s findings.
“Constants Across Cultures in the Face and Emotions.” Ekman, 1971
http://www.edmondschools.net/Portals/3/docs/Terri_McGill/READ-facial%20emotion.pdf
One of Ekman’s classic papers, published in the Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology 11:124–129, can be accessed directly via this web link.
“Tingo, Nakkele, and Other Wonders.” BBC News, September 26
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4248494.stm
This BBC news article discusses linguistic differences across cultures and gives examples of
words unique to particular languages. This article also might be used as a supplement to Box
8.1 on page 249, which lists words for emotions that are specific to particular languages
(from the source described in the BBC article). This article might also be used as a
supplement to the material on language and thought presented on page 183 of Chapter 6.
Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich
http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/brightsided.htm
Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich’s (2009) book Bright Sided: How Positive Thinking Is
Undermining America is described on this website. The site also includes links to interviews
with Ehrenreich about her book on the Daily Show, Democracy Now, and ABC News.
Ehrenreich’s book is interesting from a social psychological standpoint in that she links
structural change (the decline of the economy in the 1980s and 1990s) to the growth in the
positive-thinking movement, and the related notion that being happy and cheerful is a moral
imperative, and discusses how this cultural shift was facilitated by corporations. Wilkins’s
article on collective boundaries and happiness among Evangelical Christians, summarized
under Supplemental Readings for Students, addresses some of the issues discussed in
Ehrenreich’s book.
“Emotional Labor.” Huffington Post, July 20, 2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-a-schwartz/emotional-labor_b_1686102.html
This Huffington Post news article focuses on Hochschild’s research on emotional labor and
its relevance to the experiences of contemporary workers, who are increasingly expected to
adopt the company personality or run the risk of losing their jobs.
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“Privileged Emotion Managers: The Case of Actors.” David Orzechowicz
http://www.asanet.org/journals/spq/actors.cfm
This video lecture, available via the American Sociological Association’s website, focuses on
how theater facilitates emotion management. The presentation is given by sociological social
psychologist David Orzechowicz, who discusses his 2008 study on this topic, “Privileged
Emotion Managers: The Case of Actors” (Social Psychology Quarterly 71:143–156).
ASA Emotions Section
http://www2.asanet.org/emotions/index.html
The American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Emotions section homepage, directly
accessible via this web link, provides access to section newsletters, which include
descriptions of recent publications in the field, book reviews, and summaries of awardwining student research projects on emotions.
Sociology of Emotions, Open University of Catalonia
http://socioemo.wordpress.com/
This blog on the sociology of emotions, written by three sociologists from the Open
University of Catalonia, includes an interesting post about Lady Gaga and the blurring of
private and public spheres of emotional life (“Introspective Extimacy: Lady Gaga and the
Consumption of Emotions”). This theoretical analysis of Lady Gaga’s emotional engagement
with fans should facilitate the cultivation of a more critical orientation toward the media
among students, especially those familiar with Lady Gaga’s public persona, and help them to
see the relevance of sociological social psychology to everyday life.
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