Expressive Order

by Heise, David R.

• ISBN13: 9780387381770
• ISBN10: 0387381775
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Expressive Order introduces affect control theory to lay readers of sociology, and additionally guides sociology specialists into the theory's deep structure.Briefly, affect control theory proposes that individuals shape their social interactions so that emerging impressions reinforce sentiments about salient identities, behaviors, and settings. Emotions signal how the process of confirming sentiments is going for each individual. The theory explains behaviors, emotions, social labeling, and personality attributions in a wide variety of social contexts'”including intimate relations, work-world interactions, courtrooms, and international relations.Part 1 of the book provides a plain-language exposition of the theory, along with numerous interpretive analyses of everyday situations. This is engaging and provocative reading for anyone interested in social relations, including undergraduates in and out of the social sciences.Part 2 presents the mathematical derivations that define sentiment-confirming behavior, labeling, attribution, and emotion. The mathematical solutions, conjoined with understandings about social institutions, are the basis of the theory's explanations. The derivations clarify the theory's assumptions and reasoning, as only mathematics can.Part 3 of Expressive Order describes the research program associated with the theory and the computer simulation software that is used in research. This part of the book offers a jump start for individuals wishing to use affect control theory in their own research.

Table of Contents

Affect Control Theory, Plainly Told	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Affect control theory	p. 3
Utility of the Theory	p. 4
Overview of the Book	p. 5
Further Readings	p. 6
Sentiments	p. 7
Evaluation, Potency, and Activity (EPA)	p. 7
Measuring EPA	p. 9
Universality of EPA	p. 10
Further Readings	p. 11
Culture	p. 13
Consensus	p. 13
Individuality Versus Norms	p. 14
Measurement Implications	p. 14
Cultural Stability	p. 15
Instability or Unreliability?	p. 16
Variations Across Cultures	p. 17
Further Readings	p. 19
Sub-Cultures	p. 21
Gender	p. 22
A Pseudo-Sub-Culture	p. 22
Gendered Traits	p. 23
Gay Christians	p. 23
Deviance Sub-Cultures	p. 24
Non-Normalized Deviants	p. 25
Occupations	p. 26
Further Readings	p. 26
Defining Situations	p. 27
Identities	p. 27
Institutions	p. 28
Cues to Institutions	p. 30
Selves	p. 32
Multiple Identities	p. 32
Identity Modifiers	p. 33
Further Readings	p. 34
Interpreting Actions	p. 35
Action Frames	p. 36
Institutional Coherence	p. 37
Affective Processing	p. 37
Impression Formation	p. 37
Stability	p. 38
Behavior Effects	p. 38
Object Diminishment	p. 38
Consistencies	p. 39
Congruencies	p. 39
Balance	p. 40
States of Being	p. 40
Cross-Cultural Variations	p. 41
Impressions Versus Sentiments-Deflection	p. 41
Identifying Behaviors	p. 42
Further Readings	p. 42
Building Actions	p. 43
Selecting a Behavior	p. 43
Social Interaction	p. 44
Groups	p. 46
Avoiding Diminishment	p. 46
Social Roles	p. 47
Medicine	p. 48
Law	p. 49
Work Roles	p. 51
Macroactions	p. 52
Informal Roles	p. 53
Deviance	p. 53
Interactions With Deviants	p. 54
Interactions Among Deviants	p. 55
Further Readings	p. 56
Emotions	p. 57
Emotions as Signals	p. 57
Impressions and Emotions	p. 58
Characteristic and Structural Emotions	p. 59
Solidarity	p. 59
Emotions and Motivation	p. 60
Stress	p. 60
Self-Sentiments and Stress	p. 61
Emotions and Stress	p. 62
Emotions of Deviants	p. 62
Further Readings	p. 63
Changing Sentiments	p. 65
Re-identification	p. 65
Identity Filtering	p. 66
Labeling Deviants	p. 67
Attribution	p. 68
Inferences From Emotionality	p. 69
Identity Fluctuation	p. 70
Sentiment Change	p. 70
New Sentiments	p. 71
Enculturation	p. 71
Turning Points	p. 71
Further Readings	p. 72
Selves	p. 73
Salient Identities	p. 74
Commitment and Alienation	p. 74
Deviance Forays	p. 75
Deviants	p. 75
Self-Repugnance	p. 76
Patterns of Deviance	p. 76
Self-Fluctuation	p. 77
Cultural Shifts in Self	p. 77
Further Readings	p. 78
Mathematics of Affect Control Theory	p. 79
Event Likelihood	p. 81
Optimal Behavior	p. 85
Incorporating Settings	p. 89
Self-Directed Action	p. 90
Optimal Identity	p. 91
Re-identifying Actors	p. 91
Re-identifying Object Persons	p. 94
Modifiers	p. 97
Emotions	p. 97
Characteristic Emotion	p. 100
Attributes	p. 101
Emotions and Re-identification	p. 103
Inferences From Mood	p. 104
Elaborations	p. 107
Self and Identities	p. 109
Minimizing Inauthenticity	p. 110
Illustrative Analyses	p. 113
Optimal Behavior	p. 113
Optimal Re-identifications	p. 115
Emotions and Re-identification	p. 116
Programming the Model	p. 119
Organization of Analyses	p. 119
Emotionality Constraints	p. 120
Impression-Formation Equations	p. 120
Selection Matricies	p. 123
Algorithms	p. 124
Researching Affect Control Theory	p. 127
Growth of Affect Control Theory	p. 129
Chronology	p. 129
Branches	p. 132
Measurement of Affective Dimensions	p. 133
Impression Formation	p. 133
Theory and Mathematics	p. 134
Self	p. 134
Computer Programming	p. 134
Experiments	p. 135
Emotions	p. 135
Sub-Cultures, Gender, Ideology	p. 135
Life Course	p. 136
Social Structure, Social Change	p. 136
Politics	p. 136
Deviance	p. 137
Language and Arts	p. 137
Business	p. 137
Simulations	p. 139
Conducting Simulations	p. 139
Define Interactants Form	p. 140
Define Situation Form	p. 140
Define Events Form	p. 140
Analyze Events Form	p. 141
View Report Form	p. 141
Other Capabilities	p. 141
Errors	p. 142
Different Versions of Interact	p. 143
Further Readings	p. 144
Basic Concepts in Affect Control Theory	p. 145
References	p. 149
Index	p. 159
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