Methods of exploring emotions [Elektronisk resurs]

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that provide basic knowledge about how to pursue emotions in texts, interviews, observations, spoken language, visuals, historical documents, and surveys.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 teach-this collection fills the gap between dry methods books and students' need to know more about the actual research practice.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: methods of exploring emotions; Part I Emotions-a legitimate object of study; 2 Using fiction as sociology: how to analyze emotions with the help of novels; 3 "It's all in the plot": narrative explorations of work -related emotions; 4 "Studying up": emotions and finance decisions; 5 Exploring emotion discourse; 6 The rhetoric of emotions; Part II Eliciting emotions through interviews; 7 Researching dark emotions: eliciting stories of envy.

8 Emotional expertise: emotions and the expert9 Dialogic introspection: a method for exploring emotions in everyday life and experimental contexts; Part III Observing emotions in self and others; 10 How do we know what they feel?; 11 Emotional insights in the field; 12 Emotions: the discovery of an object and the development of a method; 13 Emotional alliances in bureaucratic encounters; 14 Can you feel your research results? How to deal with and gain insights from emotions generated during oral history interviews; 15 When your data make you cry.

16 Funerary emotions: categorizing data from a fieldwork diary17 Res…