Symbolic Interactionism as Affect Control (SUNY series in The Sociology of Emotions) - Hardcover

MacKinnon, Neil J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791420418 ISBN 13: 9780791420416

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1994

Synopsis

A treatment of affect control theory, which holds that people try to manage their experiences so that their immediate feelings about people, actions, and settings affirm long-term sentiments. Includes the first propositional formulations of the theory, traces its roots to other social psychological issues, and interprets the complex quantitative model and empirical materials without resorting to mathematical or statistical discourse. Of interest to readers in any of the social sciences. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Review:

"Symbolic Interactionism as Affect Control is the only readable english-language text that deals with the theoretical implications of Affect Control Theory for people who are qualitatively oriented and not methodologists. It will become required reading in all courses in sociological theory and in the sociology of emotions.

"The book contains an excellent argument for how Affect Control Theory both relates to historical theory and resolves specific paradoxes in contemporary theoretical approaches. I particularly like the way Dr. MacKinnon has spelled out the seven groups of propositions for Affect Control Theory and the way that he demonstrates that Affect Control Theory integrates the Chicago and Iowa Schools of Symbolic Interaction. I am also impressed with his discussion of culture and emotion theory." -- John D. O'Brien, Program in the Measurement of Affect and Affective Processes, Indiana University

Synopsis:

A treatment of affect control theory, which holds that people try to manage their experiences so that their immediate feelings about people, actions, and settings affirm long-term sentiments. Includes the first propositional formulations of the theory, traces its roots to other social psychological issues, and interprets the complex quantitative mo

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0791420418
• ISBN 13: 9780791420416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264