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Bit of a departure for me, reading about something as human as emotions, it’s almost as if I experience them occasionally!
Truly insightful but not sparkling scholarship, the concept of ‘emotional labour’ is Hochschild’s magnum opus amongst the contributions to the sociological discourse (the work required not just to fake emotion but actually contrive to deeply feel the requisite emotion(s) as dictated by capitalist systems).
Rang true for me, as a teacher I have to make myself both nicer than I necessarily want to be and more of a bastard than I necessarily want to be, and this is one of the most fatiguing parts of the role.
Beyond the primary case study and a touch of class- and gender-based analysis, not a great deal of substance was elucidated, but the legacy and importance of the central concept continues to feed discourse and necessary change.
Truly insightful but not sparkling scholarship, the concept of ‘emotional labour’ is Hochschild’s magnum opus amongst the contributions to the sociological discourse (the work required not just to fake emotion but actually contrive to deeply feel the requisite emotion(s) as dictated by capitalist systems).
Rang true for me, as a teacher I have to make myself both nicer than I necessarily want to be and more of a bastard than I necessarily want to be, and this is one of the most fatiguing parts of the role.
Beyond the primary case study and a touch of class- and gender-based analysis, not a great deal of substance was elucidated, but the legacy and importance of the central concept continues to feed discourse and necessary change.
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Interesting. I had the presumption that this was just Goffman's theory but redefined in a work context but it went beyond that with the surface level and deep level acting distinction.
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While I'm sure this was groundbreaking at the time, Hochschild could have cut this in half.
One of the most influential books in the realm of the sociology of emotion.
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I bit once I was advised that it is this book that first digs into the idea of "emotional labor."
I love and hate when reading classics in these kind of genres that it is explained so matter of factly that your only response is: duh. It all seems so simple, but also quite major that this was the first person to put this all down in writing-- and now we have the words to describe these things everyone feels.
Also, this book was super enraging as it follows flight attendants to provide a lot of the examples of emotional labor-- and reading all the shit those folks had to go through.... ugh.
I love and hate when reading classics in these kind of genres that it is explained so matter of factly that your only response is: duh. It all seems so simple, but also quite major that this was the first person to put this all down in writing-- and now we have the words to describe these things everyone feels.
Also, this book was super enraging as it follows flight attendants to provide a lot of the examples of emotional labor-- and reading all the shit those folks had to go through.... ugh.
Extraordinary. This is probably the most careful, thoughtful, insightful work I have read on the topic of emotion.