Feelings are cultivated according to culturally prescribed emotion work rules.
Evidence
There are varied cultural rules for this cultivation and expression of feeling. … In response, the individual may try to eliminate the pinch by working on feeling. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 86
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces ‘emotion work’ as the concept of bridging the gap between felt and desired emotion, per Hochschild.
- corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 86
- XREF: connects to: Emotions are cultural practices that give social formations their meaning and power; Emotion work demands vary by group and setting rather than being uniform. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 88; Multicultural conviviality requires deep emotional labor rather than terminating relationships over offensive speech — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 85 (+3 more)
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Broader Connections
- Emotions are cultural practices that give social formations their meaning and power
#expands(0.85) - Emotion work demands vary by group and setting rather than being uniform.
#expands(0.80) — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 88 - The feeling of pain depends on how it is socially expressed
#corroborates(0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 429 - Multicultural conviviality requires deep emotional labor rather than terminating relationships over offensive speech
#exemplifies(0.72) — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 85 - Mass-culture enjoyment is imitation of emotion rather than felt emotion
#qualifies(0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 101