Sociology of Emotion

The sociology of senses is the article of Katherine Walker from the EBSOHost. The sociology of emotions article is based on the study of thesociologyofemotionsin which definesemotionsas socially constructed and culturally variable labels attached to physiological responses to stimuli. Studies suck questioned the universality ofemotions, their variation across cultures, rules about feelings and emotional displays, and the necessity ofemotionsto maintaining the social bond.The article was a previously researched article, because the author makes references to Sociology scholars that have established themselves in the house of Sociology, like Emile Durkhem and Erving Goffman (by Katherine Walker, 2010) Thesociologyofemotionsis a relatively new sub compass ofsociology, which first gained prominence in the 1970s. Prior to this time, the field ofsociologyconcentrated more on cognition thanemotions, althoughemotionshave oft remained a subtext in important works.Emotionswere seen as the turf of psychologists and biologists. However, sociologists began to systematically studyemotions because they realized first, thatemotionsare fundamentally social, and second, thatemotionshave al itinerarys figured as causal mechanisms in sociological theory. Emotionsare of sociological interest because they are a primary human motivation, they help in rational decision-making, and they link the biology of the trunk with classic sociological (John J. Macoinis, 2009) questions about social construction and social control.Feature Article Sociology TestThe authors of the article try to make glide by the concept of emotion, asking specifically, what is emotion? Which they explained as a sort of phenomenon that goes through the body, or mentally. For example, that thing that people usually have while watching a horror movie, scare or fear, that makes your heart beat faster. Walker step in the concept that people develop their emotion in seven Stages that start from childhood and goes all the way to the stage in which people are able to control their emotions, and learn how to adapt them to the new situation.The article about sociology of emotions provides us many points about the splendor of emotion in a society, how our emotions are connected to the society that live, explained that the society plays an important role in peoples emotions, as well as the roles that the same society imposed on people so that they can behave in certain way, and the circumstances in which they may express emotions or feelings.This sociological article is similar to the chapter 6 of our text book, that explain some sociologists scholars theories about the everyday life interaction with emotions, the biological array of emotions, cultural side of emotions, as well as emotions in the work place, and we can observe the society influence in this matter.We can see that this article is a clear collection of information from other famous sociologist scholars, and that the authors of this article have actually written about what she found as more explicit in the sociology field about the subject of emotions, and that makes it different from what we can see from some magazine. References Strayer University EBSCO- Host Academic database Author Katherine Walker, Ph. D, June 1, 2010, Sociology of Emotions. Introduction to Sociology, by john J. Maccionis, Twelve Edition, 2009