Misery and Company Sympathy in Everyday Life

Name: Misery and Company Sympathy in Everyday Life
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ISBN: 9780226107578

ISBN-10: 0226107574

ISBN-13: 9780226107578

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Authors: Candace Clark

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In a kind of social tour of sympathy, Candace Clark reveals that the emotional experience we call sympathy has a history, logic, and life of its own. Although sympathy may seem to be a natural, reflexive reaction, people are not born knowing when, for whom, and in what circumstances sympathy is appropriate. Rather, they learn elaborate, highly specific rules--different rules for men than for women--that guide when to feel or display sympathy, when to claim it, and how to accept it. Using extensive interviews, cultural artifacts, and "intensive eavesdropping" in public places, such as hospitals and funeral parlors, as well as analyzing charity appeals, blues lyrics, greeting cards, novels,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



The Social Character of Sympathy



Sympathy Giving: Forms and Process



Framing Events as Bad Luck: Sympathy Entrepreneurs and the Grounds for Sympathy



The Socioemotional Economy, Social Value, and Sympathy Margin



Sympathy Biography and the Rules of Sympathy Etiquette



Interpreting Deviance: The Sympathetic Response



Sympathy, Microhierarchy, and Micropolitics



Epilogue


Appendix: Research Strategies


References


Name Index


Subject Index