The Emotional Self

A Sociocultural Exploration

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Deborah Lupton

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Our concepts of our emotions are integral to our wider conception of ourselves, and are used to give meaning and provide explanation for our lives. They are central to both social life and relationships with others. In this book, Deborah Lupton brings together empirical research and social and cultural theory to examine the nature of the emotional self in contemporary western societies. The analysis emphasizes the emotional self as a dynamic project continually shaped and reshaped via discourse, embodied sensations, memory, personal biography and interactions with others and objects. The author's interdisciplinary approach draws on a number of sociocultural approaches - sociology, anthropology, gender studies and social psychology - that adopt a poststructuralist perspective. She places strong emphasis on language and discourse as they construct and express concepts of the self and the emotions, whilst also acknowledging the sensual, embodied and unconscious dimensions of emotional experience.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

April 15th, 1998

Author

Deborah Lupton

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

208

Dimensions

156x234x10

ISBN-13

9780761956020

Product ID

2067095

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