From Individual to Shared Affect: Post-Durkheimian Tradition in the Sociology of Emotions

Abstract

The article analyses theoretical resources of post-Durkheimian tradition in the sociology of emotions. The author proposes to use concept “shared affect” as theoretical frame. Being used on the context of key for sociology of emotions distinctions, such as “feeling/expression,” “consciousness/unconsciousness emotion,” “involvement/distancing of emotions,” this concept lets to highlight relation of specific problems of sociology of emotions and ones of theoretical sociology.