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Expressive Order introduces affect control theory to lay readers of sociology, and additionally guides sociology specialists into the theory's deep structure. Briefly, affect control theory proposes that individuals shape their social interactions so that emerging impressions reinforce sentiments about salient identities, behaviors, and settings. Emotions signal how the process of confirming sentiments is going for each individual. The theory explains behaviors, emotions, social labeling, and personality attributions in a wide variety of social contexts - including intimate relations, work-world interactions, courtrooms, and international relations. Part 1 of the book provides a plain-language exposition of the theory, along with numerous interpretive analyses of everyday situations. This is engaging and provocative reading for anyone interested in social relations, including undergraduates in and out of the social sciences. Part 2 presents the mathematical derivations that define sentiment-confirming behavior, labeling, attribution, and emotion. The mathematical solutions, conjoined with understandings about social institutions, are the basis of the theory's explanations. The derivations clarify the theory's assumptions and reasoning, as only mathematics can. Part 3 of Expressive Order describes the research program associated with the theory and the computer simulation software that is used in research. This part of the book offers a jump start for individuals wishing to use affect control theory in their own research.
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Cover -- Contents -- Part I: Affect Control Theory, Plainly Told -- CH 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Affect control theory -- 1.2 Utility of the Theory -- 1.3 Overview of the Book -- 1.4 Further Readings -- CH 2. Sentiments -- 2.1 Evaluation, Potency, and Activity (EPA) -- 2.2 Measuring EPA -- 2.3 Universality of EPA -- 2.4 Further Readings -- CH 3. Culture -- 3.1 Consensus -- 3.2 Cultural Stability -- 3.3 Variations Across Cultures -- 3.4 Further Readings -- CH 4. Sub-Cultures -- 4.1 Gender -- 4.2 Gay Christians -- 4.3 Deviance Sub-Cultures -- 4.4 Occupations -- 4.5 Further Readings -- CH 5. Defining Situations -- 5.1 Identities -- 5.2 Institutions -- 5.3 Selves -- 5.4 Multiple Identities -- 5.5 Further Readings -- CH 6. Interpreting Actions -- 6.1 Action Frames -- 6.2 Affective Processing -- 6.3 Impressions Versus Sentiments-Deflection -- 6.4 Identifying Behaviors -- 6.5 Further Readings -- CH 7. Building Actions -- 7.1 Selecting a Behavior -- 7.2 Social Interaction -- 7.3 Social Roles -- 7.4 Deviance -- 7.5 Further Readings -- CH 8. Emotions -- 8.1 Emotions as Signals -- 8.2 Impressions and Emotions -- 8.3 Characteristic and Structural Emotions -- 8.4 Emotions and Motivation -- 8.5 Stress -- 8.6 Emotions of Deviants -- 8.7 Further Readings -- CH 9. Changing Sentiments -- 9.1 Re-identification -- 9.2 Sentiment Change -- 9.3 Further Readings -- CH 10. Selves -- 10.1 Salient Identities -- 10.2 Deviance Forays -- 10.3 Deviants -- 10.4 Self-Fluctuation -- 10.5 Further Readings -- Part II: Mathematics of Affect Control Theory -- CH 11. Event Likelihood -- CH 12. Optimal Behavior -- 12.1 Incorporating Settings -- 12.2 Self-Directed Action -- CH 13. Optimal Identity -- 13.1 Re-identifying Actors -- 13.2 Re-identifying Object Persons -- CH 14. Modifiers -- 14.1 Emotions -- 14.2 Attributes -- CH 15. Emotions and Re-identification -- 15.1 Inferences From Mood -- 15.2 Elaborations -- CH 16. Self and Identities -- 16.1 Minimizing Inauthenticity -- CH 17. Illustrative Analyses -- 17.1 Optimal Behavior -- 17.2 Optimal Re-identifications -- 17.3 Emotions and Re-identification -- CH 18. Programming the Model -- 18.1 Organization of Analyses -- 18.2 Impression-Formation Equations -- 18.3 Selection Matricies -- 18.4 Algorithms -- Part III: Researching Affect Control Theory -- CH 19. Growth of Affect Control Theory -- 19.1 Chronology -- 19.2 Branches -- CH 20. Simulations -- 20.1 Conducting Simulations -- 20.2 Other Capabilities -- 20.3 Errors -- 20.4 Further Readings -- A. Basic Concepts in Affect Control Theory -- References -- Index -- Last Page.
ISBN: 9780387381794
ISBN-10: 0387381791
Published: 3rd April 2007
Format: PDF
Language: English
Publisher: Springer Nature

























