
The Managed Heart, 3rd Edition
Commercialization of Human Feeling
$45.60
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2012
Summary
In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or “emotion work,” just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we “ought” to feel, we take guidance from “feeling rules” about what is owing to others in a given situation. Based on our private mutual understandings of feeling rules, we make a “gift exchange” of acts of emotion management. We bow to each other not simply…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520272941 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0520272943 |
| Author: | Arlie Russell Hochschild |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 23mm |
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“This is a finely crafted study of the work and inner lives of airline flight attendants… . strongly recommend[ed] to everyone, not just to specialists on emotions.”
”‘The Managed Heart’ is written so accessibly that it appeals to both the academic and the general reader. It is best when it delineates how and why we manage our emotions according to our gender or social class.” * New York Times *”[The] book is topically informative, critical of capitalism in a fresh way, and illuminating on the gender issue in emotions.” * American Journal of Sociology *“This is a finely crafted study of the work and inner lives of airline flight attendants… . strongly recommend[ed] to everyone, not just to specialists on emotions.” * Contemporary Sociology *“This is an important work. It is an interesting and provocative introduction to a crucial topi that deserves further research and thought.” * Academy of Management Review *“Hochschild’s work is significant for its illumination of new, disturbing, and everyday alienations of consciousness and feeling. Among other things, her line of inquiry suggests a new understanding of the social construction of gender and its relation to capitalism and power.” * Signs *“On the whole, this is a superb book. Hochschild has tackled a heretofore largely ignored dimension of human social existence.” * Social Forces *“The Managed Heart ’s impact was—and still is—profound. It has probably done more than any other single publication to ignite and shape the exponential growth of the sociology of emotions—especially emotion is organisations.” * Culture and Organization *“Hochschild [has] developed a language to identify how both feeling and time are transformed into commodities to be used in the service of capital.” * Theory & Event *
About The Author
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of three New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, including The Second Shift, The Managed Heart, and The Time Bind. She has received numerous awards and grants ranging from Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships to a three-year research grant from the National Institute of Public Health. Her articles have appeared in Harper’s, Mother Jones, and The New York Times Magazine, among others. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, the writer Adam Hochschild; they have two sons.
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