The Sociology of Emotions

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Emotions can bind us together and tear us apart. Emotions are central to answering questions like: Why do people do what they do? How do social situations endure? How to social situations change? In this course, we will study how social conditions shape our personal emotional experiences, group emotions, institutional emotions, and society-wide emotions. We will also look at how emotions in turn shape interactions, selves, group and institutional processes, cultural dynamics, and societal structures. By the end of the course, you will have insight into how emotions both shape and are shaped by, the social world.