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In this highly readable book, Doyle McCarthy covers some of the main ways that emotions have become important in our global societies. She explains that emotional culture is important for understanding today’s world, its markets, its politics and its mass media. To live today is to be emotionally intelligent in our relations and in our workplaces. In the modern age, global capitalism and mass media have shaped our emotions and made us more emotional. Public life has become a place where we search out emotional happenings: at shopping malls, concerts, sports events, memorials to death and disaster and in the pursuit of sports.
“Our Emotions and Culture: How Modern Life Changes Us is a brilliant book. Sociologist E Doyle McCarthy invites us to interrogate the intersection between self, society, and culture. She offers readers a sophisticated theoretical vocabulary to understand contemporary emotional life using excellent illustrations to contextualize her arguments. More importantly, she gives us an original perspective on why emotions matter to us more than ever.” — Natalia Ruiz-Junco, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, Auburn University, USA
Preface; 1. Introduction: On Individualism and Emotions; 2. What Is Modernity? How the Modern World Shaped Our Emotions?; 3. Emotional Cultures: Understanding the Concept; 4. The Authenticity of Emotions Today; 5. Today’s Emotional Pursuits and Their Markets; 6. Concluding Thoughts: Studying Emotions as Culture; Sources and Further Readings; Index