Emotions and Society

Undergraduate

This course introduces sociological approaches to the study of emotions. Topics include emotional labour, feeling rules, collective emotions, public and political emotions, changes in the norms and patterns of emotion over time, and emotions in relation to activism, gender, class, racialization, nationalism, social media, violence and conflict. Prerequisite(s): 3h of 1000-level SOCI and second-year standing, or permission of the instructor.