Description:
Presenting a unified view of the emotions in the social universe, in this volume Turner explores the relationships between; emotions, social structure and culture, and hypotheses how social structure and culture affect emotional arousal in humans, and vice versa.
Review Quotes:
"Turner outlines an impressive, elaborate theory encompassing all of social reality, with emotions taking a central role throughout...Turner has thrown down the gauntlet, giving sociologists a clearly outlined, well-stated theory that generates myriad testable hypotheses."
-- Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 38 No.2