Thanks for that Iraj,
Unfortunately my library does not stock anything by Scheff!
Your observation ties up with something I read elsewhere (I can't remember)
which mentions shame as one of those basic emotions,
Andy
At 10:31 AM 7/01/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Can anyone tell me what exactly are those small range of distinct
>emotional feelings?
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>Fear is obviously one; anger; I have heard that shame is in common with
>the animals; joy.
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>Can people help me with this one?
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>Andy
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>HI Andy,
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>Thomas J. Scheff of UC Santa Barbara has written books on the Sociology
>of Emotions. He and her wife see shame as a basic emotion that is the base
>for violence at interpersonal and in inter-group levels.
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>Scheff, T. J. (1977) The distancing of emotion in ritual. Current
>AnthropologyVol 18. No.3:483-504.
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>Scheff, T. J. (1979) Catharsis in Healing Ritual, and Drama. Berkely:
>Iniversity of California Press.
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>Scheff, T.J. (1990) Microsociology: Discourse, Emotion and Social
>Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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>iraj
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