Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding

By M. Wetherell. 2012

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Subfields: Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Doing reflexivity in psychological research: What’s the point? What’s the practice? (2020, background): “The affective turn has highlighted that although understood as individually experienced, feelings and emotion become embodied by and in social cultures (Wetherell 2012).”
Current Emotion Research in Social Psychology: Thinking About Emotions and Other People (2015, background): “Although cognitive and neuroscientific approaches to social psychology continue to yield important findings, their potential limitations have been addressed by other social psychologists who locate our discipline more broadly within the social and human sciences and exploit synergies with sociologic”
Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering (2019, background): “Patterns such as these have been theorised as forming social practices that are reworked in relation to changing contexts (Wetherell, 2012).”
An Exploration of Language Teacher Reflection, Emotion Labor, and Emotional Capital (2020, background): “Wetherell (2012) furthermore argues that scholars need to consider “the unevenness of affective practices” such as by asking, “How are practices clumped, who get to do what when?”
Trends in the Turn to Affect (2015, background): “She discovers (see also Wetherell, 2012: ch. 2) that many, indeed perhaps most, psychologists working on emotion now think Tomkins, and more particularly Ekman and the basic emotion researchers, were wrong on this major point about affect being driven by a small number of innate affect programs.”
Sex-based harassment and organizational silencing: How women are led to reluctant acquiescence in academia (2018, methodology): “Paula continued to feel embarrassed as she recalled her experience, highlighting how the process of recollection itself works as a type of affective practice (Wetherell, 2012) to maintain silence, as shame (Loveday, 2016) is foregrounded in the incident.”
A Discursive Psychological Framework for Analyzing Men and Masculinities (2014, background): “We also need ways of investigating affective, emotional, interactional and relational practices (Wetherell, 2012) as well as patterns of embodiment.”