Re: affect
Charles Bazerman (bazerman who-is-at humanitas.ucsb.edu)
Fri, 10 May 1996 08:50:27 -0700 (PDT)
The psychiatric, individualistic concern for shame has been given a
sociological twist by Tom Scheff (Sociology, UCSB) who sees shame and
pride (as construed through definitions that distinguish "false pride"--a
form of shame--from actual pride) as the two central emotions and as arising
from the state of the social bond. In essence he treats positive
orientations towards others felt as pride, and aversive orientations as
shame (and consequent emotrions such as anger).
The quickest orientation to his and related work is in a special issue of
the American Behavioral Scientist 38:8 August 1995.
Recent books of his on this theme are MICROSOCIOLOGY and BLOODY REVENGE.