Symbolic Interactionism as Affect Control: (SUNY series in The Sociology of Emotions)

Tables and Figures Foreword by David R. Heise Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Affect Control Theory Plan of this Book The Rediscovery of Affect The Social Psychology of Emotion Summary 2. Affect Control Theory Symbols, Language, and Affective Meaning Cognitive Constraints Affective Response and Control Event Assessment Event Production Emotions Cognitive Revisions Summary 3. Cognition, Affect, and Motivation Cognition and Affect Motivation Summary 4. Affect Control Theory and the Social Psychology of George Herbert Mead Emotions in Mead's Social Psychology The Social Psychology of Mead and Affect Control Summary 5. Identities and Roles The Conceptual Framework Two Schools of Role Theory Identity Theory Affect Control Theory and Identity Theory Summary 6. Role Analysis The Affect Control Model for Role Analysis Role Analysis Learning and Accessing Norms Summary 7. Emotions The Constructionist Versus Positivist Debate The Affect Control Theory of Emotions Emotion Analysis The Constructionist Versus Positivist Debate and Affect Control Theory Summary 8. Reidentification Part I: The Established Model-Attributions and Identity Labels Part II: The Expanded Model-The Effect of Expressed Emotions on Reidentification Outcomes Summary 9. Conclusion Relation to Other Theories Affect Control Theory as Sociological Explanation Affect Control Theory as Integrative Social Psychology Directions for Future Research and Refinement Summary Endnotes References Index

Table of Contents:
Tables and Figures Foreword by David R. Heise Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Affect Control Theory Plan of this Book The Rediscovery of Affect The Social Psychology of Emotion Summary 2. Affect Control Theory Symbols, Language, and Affective Meaning Cognitive Constraints Affective Response and Control Event Assessment Event Production Emotions Cognitive Revisions Summary 3. Cognition, Affect, and Motivation Cognition and Affect Motivation Summary 4. Affect Control Theory and the Social Psychology of George Herbert Mead Emotions in Mead's Social Psychology The Social Psychology of Mead and Affect Control Summary 5. Identities and Roles The Conceptual Framework Two Schools of Role Theory Identity Theory Affect Control Theory and Identity Theory Summary 6. Role Analysis The Affect Control Model for Role Analysis Role Analysis Learning and Accessing Norms Summary 7. Emotions The Constructionist Versus Positivist Debate The Affect Control Theory of Emotions Emotion Analysis The Constructionist Versus Positivist Debate and Affect Control Theory Summary 8. Reidentification Part I: The Established Model--Attributions and Identity Labels Part II: The Expanded Model--The Effect of Expressed Emotions on Reidentification Outcomes Summary 9. Conclusion Relation to Other Theories Affect Control Theory as Sociological Explanation Affect Control Theory as Integrative Social Psychology Directions for Future Research and Refinement Summary Endnotes References Index

About the Author :
Neil J. MacKinnon is Professor at the University of Guelph.

Review :
"Symbolic Interactionism as Affect Control is the only readable english-language text that deals with the theoretical implications of Affect Control Theory for people who are qualitatively oriented and not methodologists. It will become required reading in all courses in sociological theory and in the sociology of emotions. "The book contains an excellent argument for how Affect Control Theory both relates to historical theory and resolves specific paradoxes in contemporary theoretical approaches. I particularly like the way Dr. MacKinnon has spelled out the seven groups of propositions for Affect Control Theory and the way that he demonstrates that Affect Control Theory integrates the Chicago and Iowa Schools of Symbolic Interaction. I am also impressed with his discussion of culture and emotion theory." - John D. O'Brien, Program in the Measurement of Affect and Affective Processes, Indiana University