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A general theory of emotions and social life / Warren D. TenHouten.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge advances in sociology ; 24.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007Description: xv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415363101
  • 9780415363105
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.4 22
LOC classification:
  • BF531 .T46 2007
Contents:
Introduction -- From Darwin to psychoevolutionary theories of primary and secondary emotions -- The four pairs of opposite primary emotions : acceptance and disgust, joy and sadness, anger and fear, anticipation and surprise -- Secondary emotions : the four pairs of opposite primary dyads : love and misery, pride and embarrassment, aggressiveness and alarm, curiosity and cynicism -- Secondary emotions, continued : the four pairs of half-opposite secondary dyads : dominance and submissiveness, optimism and pessimism, delight and disappointment, repugnance and contempt -- Secondary emotions, continued : the eight tertiary dyads : resourcefulness and shock, morbidness and resignation, sullenness and guilt, anxiety and outrage -- Secondary emotions, continued : the four antithetical, quaternary dyads : ambivalence, catharsis, frozenness, confusion -- The sociorelational approach to the emotions : four elementary forms of sociality -- Affect-spectrum theory : the emotions of rationality and of intimacy -- Affect-spectrum theory, continued : the emotions linking informal community and formal society; a typology of four character structures -- Social identity and social control : pride and embarrassment, pridefulness and shame -- Socialization and the emotions : from alexithymia to symbolic elaboration and creativity -- The development of tertiary emotions : jealousy, envy, ambition, confidence, and hope -- Emotions, violence, and the self -- A partial empirical test of affect-spectrum theory.
Summary: "Founded upon the psychoevolutionary theories of Darwin, Plutchik and Izard, a general socioevolutionary theory of the emotions - affect-spectrum theory - classifies a wide spectrum of the emotions and analyzes them on the sociological, psychological and neurobiological levels.This neurocognitive sociology of the emotions supersedes the major theoretical perspectives developed in the sociology of emotions by showing primary emotions to be adaptive reactions to fundemental problems of life which have evolved into elementary social relationships and which can predict occurrences of the entire spectrum of primary and complex secondary and tertiary emotions (two and three primary emotions combined).Topical coverage is comprehensive, including the development of emotions in childhood, symbolic elaboration of complex emotions, emotions management, violence, and cultural and gender differences. While primary emotions have clearly defined valences, this theory shows that complex emotions obey no algebraic law; and that all emotions have both creative and destructive potentialities."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-294) and index.

Introduction -- From Darwin to psychoevolutionary theories of primary and secondary emotions -- The four pairs of opposite primary emotions : acceptance and disgust, joy and sadness, anger and fear, anticipation and surprise -- Secondary emotions : the four pairs of opposite primary dyads : love and misery, pride and embarrassment, aggressiveness and alarm, curiosity and cynicism -- Secondary emotions, continued : the four pairs of half-opposite secondary dyads : dominance and submissiveness, optimism and pessimism, delight and disappointment, repugnance and contempt -- Secondary emotions, continued : the eight tertiary dyads : resourcefulness and shock, morbidness and resignation, sullenness and guilt, anxiety and outrage -- Secondary emotions, continued : the four antithetical, quaternary dyads : ambivalence, catharsis, frozenness, confusion -- The sociorelational approach to the emotions : four elementary forms of sociality -- Affect-spectrum theory : the emotions of rationality and of intimacy -- Affect-spectrum theory, continued : the emotions linking informal community and formal society; a typology of four character structures -- Social identity and social control : pride and embarrassment, pridefulness and shame -- Socialization and the emotions : from alexithymia to symbolic elaboration and creativity -- The development of tertiary emotions : jealousy, envy, ambition, confidence, and hope -- Emotions, violence, and the self -- A partial empirical test of affect-spectrum theory.

"Founded upon the psychoevolutionary theories of Darwin, Plutchik and Izard, a general socioevolutionary theory of the emotions - affect-spectrum theory - classifies a wide spectrum of the emotions and analyzes them on the sociological, psychological and neurobiological levels.This neurocognitive sociology of the emotions supersedes the major theoretical perspectives developed in the sociology of emotions by showing primary emotions to be adaptive reactions to fundemental problems of life which have evolved into elementary social relationships and which can predict occurrences of the entire spectrum of primary and complex secondary and tertiary emotions (two and three primary emotions combined).Topical coverage is comprehensive, including the development of emotions in childhood, symbolic elaboration of complex emotions, emotions management, violence, and cultural and gender differences. While primary emotions have clearly defined valences, this theory shows that complex emotions obey no algebraic law; and that all emotions have both creative and destructive potentialities."--Publisher description.

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