| The Emotional Self: A Sociocultural Exploration Contributor(s): Lupton, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761956018 ISBN-13: 9780761956013 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $190.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Emotions - Psychology | Social Psychology - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 152.4 |
| LCCN: 97062538 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This addition to a growing number of texts which approach emotions and emotionality from a social constructionist perspective is well written, scholarly, accessible and interesting.... There is both breadth and depth to this work.′ - Feminism and Psychology This broad-ranging and accessible book brings together social and cultural theory with original empirical research into the nature of the emotional self in contemporary western societies. The emphasis of the analysis is on the emotional self as a dynamic project that is continually shaped and reshaped via discourse, embodied sensations, memory, personal biography and interactions with others and objects. Using an interdisciplinary approa |
Contributor Bio(s): Lupton, Deborah: - Deborah Lupton is SHARP professor in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney, working in the Center for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Center and leading the Vitalities Lab. She is the author/co-author of 17 books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (Routledge, 2015), The Quantified Self (Polity, 2016), Digital Health (Routledge, 2017), Fat, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2018), and Data Selves (Polity, 2019). She is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and holds an honorary doctor of social science degree awarded by the University of Copenhagen. |