Our Emotions and Culture: How Modern Life Changes Us
In this highly readable book, Doyle McCarthy covers some of the main ways that emotions have become important in our global societies. She explains that emotional culture is important for understanding today’s world, its markets, its politics and its mass media. To live today is to be emotionally intelligent in our relations and in our workplaces. In the modern age, global capitalism and mass media have shaped our emotions and made us more emotional. Public life has become a place where we search out emotional happenings: at shopping malls, concerts, sports events, memorials to death and disaster and in the pursuit of sports.

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Our Emotions and Culture: How Modern Life Changes Us
In this highly readable book, Doyle McCarthy covers some of the main ways that emotions have become important in our global societies. She explains that emotional culture is important for understanding today’s world, its markets, its politics and its mass media. To live today is to be emotionally intelligent in our relations and in our workplaces. In the modern age, global capitalism and mass media have shaped our emotions and made us more emotional. Public life has become a place where we search out emotional happenings: at shopping malls, concerts, sports events, memorials to death and disaster and in the pursuit of sports.

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Our Emotions and Culture: How Modern Life Changes Us

Our Emotions and Culture: How Modern Life Changes Us

by E Doyle McCarthy
Our Emotions and Culture: How Modern Life Changes Us

Our Emotions and Culture: How Modern Life Changes Us

by E Doyle McCarthy

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In this highly readable book, Doyle McCarthy covers some of the main ways that emotions have become important in our global societies. She explains that emotional culture is important for understanding today’s world, its markets, its politics and its mass media. To live today is to be emotionally intelligent in our relations and in our workplaces. In the modern age, global capitalism and mass media have shaped our emotions and made us more emotional. Public life has become a place where we search out emotional happenings: at shopping malls, concerts, sports events, memorials to death and disaster and in the pursuit of sports.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781839980732
Publisher: Anthem Press
Publication date: 01/14/2025
Series: Anthem Studies in the Political Sociology of Democracy , #1
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Doyle McCarthy is professor emerita of sociology and American studies at Fordham University, New York. Her areas of research and writing include social theories of modernity, sociology of knowledge and emotion studies.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction: On Individualism and Emotions; 2. What Is Modernity? How the Modern World Shaped Our Emotions?; 3. Emotional Cultures: Understanding the Concept; 4. The Authenticity of Emotions Today; 5. Today’s Emotional Pursuits and Their Markets; 6. Concluding Thoughts: Studying Emotions as Culture; Sources and Further Readings; Index

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