SOC 389 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Labeling Theory, Organic Food, Emotion Work
9 Apr 2018
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Components of emotions: a situational stimulus, physiological changes, expressive gesturing, a label to identify the cluster of the first three (peggy thoits, 1989) Different combinations of the first three - different emotions (often culturally dependent) Emotions are related to goals! (frijda & mequita 1994) Paul ekman identified 6 + 1 universal emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprised. People assign it emotions based on their environment. Displaying emotions you are not currently feeling. Awareness of self in the social context. Experienced in reference to a social standard. Shame self-reflexive judgement of yourself as a person. Jealousy response to something good happening to someone else. If affected personally actions focusing on self. Solution: provide strategies to cope: emotions associated with environmental behavior. Solution: associate behaviors with positive emotions or start with behaviors and emphasize positive emotions as a result. Increases vitality, reduction of aggression: affective connection to nature. Connectedness to nature scale (mayers & frantz, 2004)
