Methods of Exploring Emotions [Hardcover]

Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural, and mixed approaches. Bringing together the emerging lines of inquiry, it lays foundations for an overdue methodological debate.

The volume offers entrancing short essays, richly illustrated with examples and anecdotes, that provide basic knowledge about how to pursue emotions in texts, interviews, observations, spoken language, visuals, historical documents, and surveys. The contributors are respectful of those being researched and are mindful of the effects of their own feelings on the conclusions. The book thus touches upon the ethics of research in vivid first person accounts.

Methods are notoriously difficult to teachthis collection fills the gap between dry methods books and students need to know more about the actual research practice.

1. Introduction: Methods of Exploring Emotions, Helena Flam  Part 1: Emotions  A legitimate object of study 2. Using Fiction as Sociology: How to analyze emotions with the help of novels, Helmut Kuzmics  3. Its all in the Plot  Narrative explorations of work-related emotions, Yiannis Gabriel and Eda Ulus  4. Studying Up  Emotions and finance decisions, Jocelyn Pixley  5. Exploring Emotion Discourse, Tamar Katriel  6. The Rhetoric of Emotions, Barbara Czarniawska  Part 2: Eliciting Emotions Through Interviews  7. Researching Dark Emotions: Eliciting Stories of Envy, Ishan Jalan  8. Emotional Expertise: Emotions and the expert interview, Jochen Kleres  9. Dialogic Introspection  A method for exploring emotions in everyday-life and experimental contextló%