All social relations involve emotional responses from the simplest facetoface encounter through the mobilization of social movements to the commitmentsthat indi... » 

All social relations involve emotional responses from the simplest facetoface encounter through the mobilization of social movements to the commitmentsthat individuals develop for culture and society. The social world is thusdependent upon the arousal of emotions and equally significant conflict andchange in societies is ultimately driven by emotional arousal. Thus it isimportant to understand how human emotions influence and are influenced bythe social world. This understanding takes us into the sociology of emotionsthat has emerged as a distinct area of inquiry over the last thirty years. «