What is it about?
In the sociology of emotions, researchers typically work within an individual paradigm. In this paper, we illustrate how emotions sociologists can analyse emotions post-paradigmatically (across paradigms). Drawing on data collected using video-reflexive ethnography in one cancer care department we show how analysing emotions using theoretical and methodological tools from different paradigms in a given social context can offer new insight and reveal the layers of meanings of emotions.
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Why is it important?
In illustrating how to work post-paradigmatically, we are calling for a shift in approaches to research in the sociology of emotions. Rather than turning (e.g., linguistic, affective, post-qualitative turns) away from approaches to analysing emotions in social life, we suggest metaphorically and metaphysically stepping back to open ourselves to the various embodied, relational, critical and affective meanings of emotions.
Perspectives
Writing this article while on a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at UQ was a great pleasure as it benefited from feedback from accomplished scholars in a range of disciplines: history, critical studies, anthropology, literary studies. We hope the article pushes emotions sociologists to think differently about how they approach the theory-research nexus.
Rebecca Olson
University of Queensland
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This page is a summary of: A post-paradigmatic approach to analysing emotions in social life, Emotions and Society, November 2020, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.1332/263169020x15893854268688.
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