| Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality: Part/Whole Analysis Contributor(s): Scheff, Thomas J. (Author), Oatley, Keith (Editor), Manstead, Antony (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521584914 ISBN-13: 9780521584913 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Psychology | Personality - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 302 |
| LCCN: 96051847 |
| Series: Studies in Emotion & Social Interaction |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.75 lbs) 262 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In his important new book, Thomas Scheff offers an innovative approach to researching human behavior that relates the smallest parts of social interaction to the greatest wholes of social structure. These are the details and connections usually found only in the finest novels, but Scheff combines the insights of the humanities and social sciences to capture the same evocative details of sight, sound and context, better to understand what he calls human reality. He puts a fresh emphasis on the importance of emotions in the social bond, and describes in newly subtle ways the outer and inner lives of persons in real life, such as inner city children, and in fiction, such as Jane Austen's heroines. By closely observing the significance of words and gestures, in the context in which they occur, he is able to illuminate the connection between people's lives and the society in which they live. |