Rebecca Olson
Biographic Data
| ID | 76728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Olson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Olson |
| SIGNATURE | OLSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7721-8708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things
Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise. This, in part, is due to a contemporary capitalist domestication of thanatological themes into subjects of sensation, exotification, and ultimately, commodification and consumption. Additiona…
Widening access to medicine: A realist review
Xylazine’s Impacts on the Community in Philadelphia: Perspectives of People Who Use Opioids and Harm Reduction Workers
BACKGROUND: Xylazine is in 99% of the fentanyl supply in Philadelphia, PA and is on the rise throughout the United States. Perspectives about this emerging crisis among people who use opioids (PWUO) and harm reduction workers are lacking. METHODS: We conducted focus groups with PWUO and harm reduction workers in Philadelphia, PA. Discussions focused on xylazine's impact on PWUO. Transcripts were coded for thematic analysis. RESULTS: Themes across…
Implementation of a Police-Led Fentanyl Test Strip Distribution Program in Two US States
BACKGROUND: The increase of fentanyl in the North American drug supply and lack of a reliable detection method for people who use drugs (PWUDs) warrant the broad distribution of fentanyl test strips (FTS). We evaluated the impact and reach of the One2One project in Massachusetts and Maine communities where it was implemented. METHODS: An implementation evaluation occurred from January-November 2021. Through One2One, police officers and non-police…
Widening access to medical school in Australia: A realist evaluation
Non-clinical Psychosocial Mental Health Support Programmes for People with Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Critical Rapid Review
Low accessibility to mainstream psychosocial services disadvantages culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations, resulting in delayed care and high rates of unsupported psychological distress. Non-clinical interventions may play an important role in improving accessibility to psychosocial support, but what characterises best practice in this space remains unclear. This critical rapid review addressed this gap by searching for, and cr…
Improvising end-of-life with young children: Death/S and Its Absolute
Navigating uncertainty in low back pain care through an ethic of openness: Learnings from a post-critical analysis
Theoretical and practical guidance on how to navigate uncertainties in healthcare are scarce. Here, we draw from Gibson’s ethic of openness to explore clinicians’ experiences navigating uncertainty with individuals who experience low back pain (LBP) and provide guidance on avenues for navigating uncertainty in LBP and healthcare more broadly. Our analysis suggests that clinicians practice within different philosophical commitments when providing …
(Un-)Protocoling post-qualitative childhood research: A Novice Researcher
Justice in Health? Studying the Role of Legal Support in a Culturally Responsive Mental Health Service in Australia
Health Justice Partnerships (HJPs) are collaborations across law, health, and social care seeking more equitable health outcomes. This article aims to explore an HJP embedded within a culturally responsive mental health service in Australia for people who are culturally and racially marginalized (CARM). We draw on data produced for an evaluation of this service between August and November 2022 to conduct a reflexive thematic analysis. Thinking co…
I'm not 'fake rural: Rural student negotiation of identity and place in medical school
This article addresses the accessibility of medical education for rural students, focusing on the intersection of rurality and socioeconomic privilege. We present findings from a study of rural background medical students from four Australian medical schools, which explored their experiences of admissions processes and their ongoing socialisation. Participants characterised admissions pathways as complex, requiring social capital to navigate. Tho…
Relational approaches to conceptualising, measuring and enacting wellbeing and care in palliative and end-of-life contexts
Affecting the future: A multi-method qualitative text and discourse analysis of emotions in Australian news reporting on climate change and climate anxiety
Eco-anxiety and associated emotions are on the rise. International estimates range from 25-68% prevalence. Australians now regard climate change as their top concern for the future, with some young people reconsidering their intentions to become parents. The emotional sequela from climate change is becoming clearer. How it is conceptualised, responded to, and reinforced within public discourse requires further consideration. This paper presents a…
Valuing emotions and reflecting on group work: A ‘metalogic’ approach to teaching research methods in a university course
Students are often apprehensive about group work and about learning research methods. Challenges such as group work ‘free-riders’, and high anxiety about methods, dominate the literature on teaching within these complex learning domains. Drawing on both reflexive and emotional turns in sociological theory, we explore the potential of a group research project on students' experiences of group work for fostering reflexive learning of skills in grou…
Unravelling epistemic injustice in medical education: The case of the underperforming learner
Navigating whiteness: Affective relational intensities of non-clinical psychosocial support by and for culturally and linguistically diverse people
Mental health is political, with intersecting economic, cultural, racialized, and affective dimensions making up the care assemblage, signalling how care is conceptualised and who is deserving of care. In this article, we examine emotions circulating in a non-clinical psychosocial support program for culturally and linguistically diverse people experiencing mental ill-health, foregrounding the relations between culture, race, economy, and assumpt…
Engaging on a slightly more human level: A qualitative study exploring the care of individuals with back pain in a multidisciplinary pain clinic
Chronic low back pain is characterised by multiple and overlapping biological, psychological, social and broader dimensions, affecting individuals' lives. Multidisciplinary pain services have been considered optimal settings to account for the multidimensionality of chronic low back pain but have largely focused on cognitive and behavioural aspects of individuals' pain. Social dimensions are usually underexplored, considered outside or beyond hea…
The good pain patient: A Critical Evaluation of Patients' Self-Presentations in Specialist Pain Clinics
Established research supports collaborative patient-clinician communication as a means of improving pain management and decreasing opioid use by patients with chronic pain. However, much of this scholarship emphasises clinicians' capacities to shape and improve communication; limited research investigates patients' roles in this process. Drawing on 40 ethnographic observations of patient-clinician interactions, clinical spaces and case conference…
‘What price do you put on your health?’: Medical cannabis, financial toxicity and patient perspectives on medication access in advanced cancer
INTRODUCTION: Following 2016 legislation permitting limited access to cannabis for research and medicinal purposes, the number of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) investigating the effectiveness of medicinal cannabis (MC) on symptom burden relief in cancer contexts has increased in Australia. This study aimed to understand the perceptions, hopes and concerns of people with advanced cancer regarding the future availability and regulation of MC in…
Distress in the care of people with chronic low back pain: Insights from an ethnographic study
Situated at the intersection of health sociology, sociology of emotions, and physiotherapy, our study offers a worked example of applying an affective assemblage theoretical framework to understanding emotionally imbued clinical interactions. Viewing physiotherapy care through an affective assemblage lens allows for recognising that life, pain, and distress are emerging, always in flux. Such an approach recognises that clinicians and patients exp…
Belonging as flickering and in flux in academic work: A collective biography
In this article, we explore the concept of belonging and its utility as a means for understanding academics’ experiences of working in the academy. Transformative changes have reorientated academic work in recent years and continue to do so as we grapple with what it means to work and live in a post-digital, post-covid, world. We engage a collective biography methodology to highlight the embodied spatial-material assemblages in which belonging ca…
A catalyst for change: Developing a collaborative reflexive ethnographic approach to research with hospital doctors during the Covid-19 pandemic
The understanding of what ethnography looks like, and its purpose, is continuously evolving. COVID-19 posed a significant challenge to ethnographers, particularly those working in health-related research. Researchers have developed alternative forms of ethnography to overcome some of these challenges; we developed the Mobile Instant Messaging Ethnography (MIME) adaptation to ethnography in 2021 to overcome restrictions to our own research with ho…
Imperatives of health or happiness: Narrative constructions of long-term smoking after undergoing lung screening
Tobacco control policies reinforce a health imperative that positions citizens as duty-bound to manage their health by abstaining from or quitting smoking. Limited attention is paid to the repercussions - especially for lung screening - of anti-smoking rhetoric emphasising individual responsibility. Drawing on interviews with 27 long-term smokers involved in an international lung screening trial, this study analysed Australian smokers' narratives…
How physiotherapists attend to the human aspects of care when working with people with low back pain: A Thematic Analysis
Pain is a multidimensional experience. Physiotherapy has attempted to enhance earlier biomedical approaches to patient care through approaches like the 'biopsychosocial' model. Nevertheless, physiotherapy continues to focus on biomedical and/or behavioural aspects of care. We critically investigated how physiotherapists attend to human (psychosocial, emotional, existential, and moral) aspects of low back pain care. We co-analysed ethnographic dat…
Emotions in human research ethics guidelines: Beyond risk, harm and pathology
Drawing on a discourse analysis of emotions in national human research ethics guidelines from Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and United States, I argue that such guidelines treat emotions as superfluous, harmful, risky and threats to rational decision-making. Such uncritical appreciation of emotions sees instructions to show 'respect' position non-Western participants as 'the other', sees directives to consider 'emotional welfare' under…
Managing hope, denial or temporal anomie? Informal cancer carers' accounts of spouses' cancer diagnoses
Emotionally reflexive labour in end-of-life communication
A post-paradigmatic approach to analysing emotions in social life
Scholars studying emotions in social life typically work mono-logically, within a paradigmatic camp, drawing on distinct theories of emotion. In isolation, each offers a singular conceptualisation of emotions in social life. Working multi-logically, in contrast, offers richer, comparative insight into the layered meanings of emotion relevant to a social context. Rather than treating them as incommensurate, we not only argue for the benefits of dr…
Manly tears exploded from my eyes, lets feel together brahs: Emotion and masculinity within an online body building community
Discussions of crying and love are not what one might expect to find when examining interactions between recreational bodybuilders online. Gendered emotion ideologies, especially related to muscular masculinities, usually forbid men from exhibiting emotional vulnerability in front of other men, as emotional detachment is one of the ways gender hierarchies are maintained. Building on Connell's concept of 'hegemonic masculinity' and Hochschild's co…
Emotions in human research ethics guidelines: Beyond risk, harm and pathology
Drawing on a discourse analysis of emotions in national human research ethics guidelines from Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and United States, I argue that such guidelines treat emotions as superfluous, harmful, risky and threats to rational decision-making. Such uncritical appreciation of emotions sees instructions to show 'respect' position non-Western participants as 'the other', sees directives to consider 'emotional welfare' under…
Towards an ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: Practising beyond the biopsychosocial model
The biopsychosocial model is currently considered by most researchers and clinicians to be the best approach to low back pain (LBP) care. The model was popularised in LBP care in response to some clear deficiencies in earlier biomedical approaches and is now widely recommended in clinical guidelines and policy statements. Yet the biopsychosocial approach has also been critiqued for its narrow conceptualisation and application. In this article, we…
Afflexivity in post-qualitative inquiry: Prioritising Affect and Reflexivity in the Evaluation of a Health Information Website
how these intra-actions pushed in some directions and away from others. Although Ahmed would likely not consider herself 'post-humanist', we argue that her socio-political theories of how objects and emotions entangle are of great interest to furthering critical post-human understandings of health. Rather than threatening decision-making, we suggest that feelings (and their affects) are central to it. The article demonstrates the productive poten…
Emotion management and solidarity in the workplace: A call for a new research agenda
Research focusing on the management of emotion features prominently in studies of employee attrition, gender inequality and workplace satisfaction, but rarely in research on worker solidarity. Against a backdrop of increasing individualisation within late modern society, research about workplace management of emotion has become bifurcated along sociological or organisational psychology lines. Within the sociology literature, management of emotion…
Non-clinical Psychosocial Mental Health Support Programmes for People with Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Critical Rapid Review
Low accessibility to mainstream psychosocial services disadvantages culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations, resulting in delayed care and high rates of unsupported psychological distress. Non-clinical interventions may play an important role in improving accessibility to psychosocial support, but what characterises best practice in this space remains unclear. This critical rapid review addressed this gap by searching for, and cr…
Belonging as flickering and in flux in academic work: A collective biography
In this article, we explore the concept of belonging and its utility as a means for understanding academics’ experiences of working in the academy. Transformative changes have reorientated academic work in recent years and continue to do so as we grapple with what it means to work and live in a post-digital, post-covid, world. We engage a collective biography methodology to highlight the embodied spatial-material assemblages in which belonging ca…
A catalyst for change: Developing a collaborative reflexive ethnographic approach to research with hospital doctors during the Covid-19 pandemic
The understanding of what ethnography looks like, and its purpose, is continuously evolving. COVID-19 posed a significant challenge to ethnographers, particularly those working in health-related research. Researchers have developed alternative forms of ethnography to overcome some of these challenges; we developed the Mobile Instant Messaging Ethnography (MIME) adaptation to ethnography in 2021 to overcome restrictions to our own research with ho…
Quality of life beyond measure: Advanced cancer patients, wellbeing and medicinal cannabis
Experiences of advanced cancer are assembled and (re)positioned with reference to illness, symptoms and maintaining 'wellbeing'. Medical cannabis is situated at a borderline in this and the broader social domain: between stigmatised and normalised; recreational and pharmaceutical; between perception, experience, discourse and scientific proof of benefit. Yet, in the hyper-medicalised context of randomised clinical trials (RCTs), cancer, wellbeing…
Physiotherapists Both Reproduce and Resist Biomedical Dominance when Working With People With Low Back Pain: A Qualitative Study Towards New Praxis
Despite recommendations to incorporate physical and psychosocial factors when providing care for people with back pain, research suggests that physiotherapists continue to focus on biological aspects. This study investigated how interpersonal and institutional norms influence this continued enactment of the biological aspects of management. We used theoretically-driven analysis, drawing from Foucauldian notions of power, to analyse 28 ethnographi…
How Can Video-Reflexive Ethnographers Anticipate Positive Impact on Healthcare Practice
Evidence suggests that studies aiming to improve healthcare practice should be flexible and prioritise patient, family and clinician engagement. Video-reflexive ethnography (VRE), a form of qualitative research often employed in healthcare settings, is well-suited to these aims. VRE supplements ethnographic techniques with video-recordings of in situ practices, allowing practitioners to reflect on taken-for-granted practices. Its prioritisation o…
A Social Domain Approach to Informant Discrepancies in Parental Solicitation and Family Rules
Reimagining health professional socialisation: An Interactionist Study of Interprofessional Education
The literature on interprofessional education (IPE) in allied health has historically been atheoretical and dominated by interventionist approaches using survey-based methods. Little is known about the social and contextual factors underpinning university-based interprofessional socialisation across allied health degrees. Using Holland et al.’s theory of ‘identities as practice’ and in-depth interview data from 19 students, we analyse first year …
Navigating whiteness: Affective relational intensities of non-clinical psychosocial support by and for culturally and linguistically diverse people
Mental health is political, with intersecting economic, cultural, racialized, and affective dimensions making up the care assemblage, signalling how care is conceptualised and who is deserving of care. In this article, we examine emotions circulating in a non-clinical psychosocial support program for culturally and linguistically diverse people experiencing mental ill-health, foregrounding the relations between culture, race, economy, and assumpt…
Engaging on a slightly more human level: A qualitative study exploring the care of individuals with back pain in a multidisciplinary pain clinic
Chronic low back pain is characterised by multiple and overlapping biological, psychological, social and broader dimensions, affecting individuals' lives. Multidisciplinary pain services have been considered optimal settings to account for the multidimensionality of chronic low back pain but have largely focused on cognitive and behavioural aspects of individuals' pain. Social dimensions are usually underexplored, considered outside or beyond hea…
Distress in the care of people with chronic low back pain: Insights from an ethnographic study
Situated at the intersection of health sociology, sociology of emotions, and physiotherapy, our study offers a worked example of applying an affective assemblage theoretical framework to understanding emotionally imbued clinical interactions. Viewing physiotherapy care through an affective assemblage lens allows for recognising that life, pain, and distress are emerging, always in flux. Such an approach recognises that clinicians and patients exp…
How physiotherapists attend to the human aspects of care when working with people with low back pain: A Thematic Analysis
Pain is a multidimensional experience. Physiotherapy has attempted to enhance earlier biomedical approaches to patient care through approaches like the 'biopsychosocial' model. Nevertheless, physiotherapy continues to focus on biomedical and/or behavioural aspects of care. We critically investigated how physiotherapists attend to human (psychosocial, emotional, existential, and moral) aspects of low back pain care. We co-analysed ethnographic dat…
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care
Despite clinicians being important actors in the context of uncertainty, their experiences navigating uncertainty remain largely unexplored. Drawing on a theory-driven post-qualitative approach, we used Mol's logic of choice/care as a lens through which we made sense of interviews with 22 clinicians who work with patients who experience low back pain (LBP). Our analysis suggests that uncertainty is ubiquitous in LBP care and not limited to partic…
New mothers and social support: A mixed-method study of young mothers in Australia
Motherhood can bring joy and enrichment but may also be associated with stress leading to poor health outcomes and low life satisfaction. Young mothers are a group particularly at risk of adverse outcomes, including increased social, economic, and health disadvantage following early entry to motherhood. This article reports results from a mixed-method study examining variations in levels of social support reported by mothers. Cross-sectional anal…
The emotional trade-off between meaningful and precarious work in new economies
The contradictory work environments of new economies in late modernity are associated with a range of emotional experiences, requiring diverse emotion management strategies. Late modernity offers the capacity to pursue happy, safe, rewarding, and meaningful work for the privileged few; a potential trade-off between stressful meaningful and boring precarious work for a greater number; and the prospect of non-meaningful, precarious work for many in…
Happy, Stressed, and Angry: A National Study of Teachers’ Emotions and Their Management
The teaching profession offers meaningful, stimulating work that accords with teachers’ sense of professional pride and identity, but is also synonymous with high levels of stress, conflict (and associated emotions such as anger and shame) and ultimately, attrition. The degree to which teachers within a national population ‘up-manage’ the former or ‘down-manage’ the latter emotions is unknown. This study utilises new data from the Australian Surv…
Examining Interprofessional Education Through the Lens of Interdisciplinarity: Power, Knowledge and New Ontological Subjects
Viva La Vida: Helping Latino Medicare Beneficiaries With Diabetes Live Their Lives to the Fullest
Viva la Vida (Live Your Life) is a call to action for older Latinos to take charge of their diabetes and live life to the fullest. Lumetra, California’s federally designated Medicare quality improvement organization, developed the Viva la Vida project to improve diabetes care among Latino Medicare beneficiaries in 4 Southern California counties. After researching barriers to good diabetes care among Latino seniors, Lumetra designed a multifaceted…
Raising Awareness of Medicare Member Rights Among Seniors and Caregivers in California
Many Medicare recipients do not understand their health care rights. Lumetra, formerly California's Medicare quality improvement organization, developed a multifaceted outreach program to increase beneficiary awareness of its services and of the right to file quality-of-care complaints and discharge appeals. Layered outreach activities to Medicare members and their caregivers in 2 targeted counties consisted of paid media, direct mailings, commun…
Managing hope, denial or temporal anomie? Informal cancer carers' accounts of spouses' cancer diagnoses
Changes in professional human care work: The case of Nurse Practitioners in Australia
Recently, the Australian Government has provided significant support for the expansion of Nurse Practitioner services in the community. As a result, the emerging role and ongoing retention of these professionals is an area for policy investigation. However, there is also a broader significance in the Nurse Practitioner role for which sociological perspectives can provide insight. Sociologists identify two key characteristics of late-modernism as …
Exploring identity in the ‘figured worlds’ of cancer care-giving and marriage in Australia
Following changes in the structure and funding of the Australian medical system, patients have become 'consumers' or 'clients'. Family and friends have become 'carers' or 'caregivers', signifying their increased responsibilities as patients move from hospitals to communities. While policy makers embrace the term 'carer', some argue that the title is not widely recognised and has disempowering connotations. This paper examines spouses' reflections…
Why few older adults participate in complex motor skills: A qualitative study of older adults’ perceptions of difficulty and challenge
This study offers recommendations for increasing participation in CMS. Modifying activities to suit ability and age and increasing exposure during the life span may help maintain participation into old age. Gentile's taxonomy provides an appropriate framework for classifying activities as simple or complex, which were recognised by participants on a descriptive level. Existing and new sports, which have been modified for old age, should be made a…
Too Gentle”: Jealousy and Class in Othello
Seventeenth-century writers were fascinated by the emotional turmoil that jealousy provoked, and their jealous characters feel darker and more psychologically realistic than earlier representations. What needs more scrutiny is the relationship between violent jealousy, gender, and class in the early modern period. We have, for example, largely overlooked the fact that Shakespeare’s most jealous husbands are married to the only children of importa…
When they don't die: Prognosis ambiguity, role conflict and emotion work in cancer caregiving
Informal carers of cancer patients have high rates of burden, stress, anxiety and unmet needs; yet, some describe caregiving as fulfilling. Building on the work of Thomas and colleagues, this study takes a sociology of emotions approach to understanding variations in carers of cancer patients' emotional experiences, using interview data with 32 carers of a spouse with cancer. Analysis indicates that a clearly terminal (negative) prognosis facilit…
Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving: Time to Feel
Once a synonym for death, cancer is now a prognosis of multiple probabilities and produces a world of uncertainty for carers. Drawing on rich, in-depth interview data and employing interactionist theories, Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving explores carers' lived experiences, paying close attention to the ways in which spouse carers manage the ambiguity that pervades their orientations to the future, their responsibilities and their emotion…
No one wants to be taught from a textbook!’: Pre-service health and physical education teachers’ reflections on skill acquisition and a new curriculum
Changes to the purpose and scope of health and physical education (HPE) in schools have prompted revisions in teacher education degrees within Australia. Using a qualitative approach, this study explored HPE teachers’ perceptions of these changes. Of particular interest was pre-service HPE teachers’ reflections on the importance of skill acquisition (also referred to as motor learning) content in their university degree, which focuses on the theo…
A Social Domain Approach to Informant Discrepancies in Parental Solicitation and Family Rules
Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England
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Reimagining health professional socialisation: An Interactionist Study of Interprofessional Education
The literature on interprofessional education (IPE) in allied health has historically been atheoretical and dominated by interventionist approaches using survey-based methods. Little is known about the social and contextual factors underpinning university-based interprofessional socialisation across allied health degrees. Using Holland et al.’s theory of ‘identities as practice’ and in-depth interview data from 19 students, we analyse first year …
The sociology of emotions: A meta-reflexive review of a theoretical tradition in flux
Based in a novel ‘meta-reflexive’ review of sociology of emotions (SoE) articles, we suggest that there are two primary SoE theoretical traditions that function within geographic silos: the USA is distinctly social psychological, while in the UK and Australia, SoE is more aligned with the humanities. In both traditions, parallel calls are emerging for interdisciplinarity and further engagement with physiological and pre-personal elements of emoti…
Examining Interprofessional Education Through the Lens of Interdisciplinarity: Power, Knowledge and New Ontological Subjects
Genomics: The clinical encounter and parallels across complementary and personalized medicine
Genomics is progressing from “bench to bedside,” especially in cancer care. Referred to as precision and personalized medicine, this article casts sociological scholarship on genomic medicine into three interconnected realms: laboratory, family, and clinic. Thought to be solely and objectively discovered in the laboratory, sociological research illustrates the messiness of genetic research. The self in (late) modern times is popularly conceptuali…
Associations between gratitude and spirituality: An experience sampling approach
Disaggregating behavioral and psychological components of religious and spiritual development across adolescence: Variations by geographic location
Religious behavior and spirituality have been consistently found to be associated with a host of positive youth outcomes including increased grade point average (Ferris, Oosterhoff, & Metzger, 2013) and community service (Paxton, Reith, & Glanville, 2014) and decreased substance use (Milot & Ludden, 2009). However, few studies have investigated how religious behavior and spirituality uniquely and interactively predict these outcomes, as well as h…
Elucidating knowledge and beliefs about obesity and eating disorders among key stakeholders: Paving the way for an integrated approach to health promotion
The findings indicate areas where the EDs and obesity fields have common ground and can work together in developing integrated health promotion programs
Social Emotions: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Current research on emotions represents a broad church of methodological approaches. The essays in this special issue will investigate how social emotions inform research across numerous disciplinary fields and methodological approaches. This introduction will set out the social dimensions of emotions like shame, anger, anxiety, empathy and pity from a specifically sociological perspective. In sum, this will work to counter tendencies that indivi…
Happy, Stressed, and Angry: A National Study of Teachers’ Emotions and Their Management
The teaching profession offers meaningful, stimulating work that accords with teachers’ sense of professional pride and identity, but is also synonymous with high levels of stress, conflict (and associated emotions such as anger and shame) and ultimately, attrition. The degree to which teachers within a national population ‘up-manage’ the former or ‘down-manage’ the latter emotions is unknown. This study utilises new data from the Australian Surv…
Emotion management and solidarity in the workplace: A call for a new research agenda
Research focusing on the management of emotion features prominently in studies of employee attrition, gender inequality and workplace satisfaction, but rarely in research on worker solidarity. Against a backdrop of increasing individualisation within late modern society, research about workplace management of emotion has become bifurcated along sociological or organisational psychology lines. Within the sociology literature, management of emotion…
Manly tears exploded from my eyes, lets feel together brahs: Emotion and masculinity within an online body building community
Discussions of crying and love are not what one might expect to find when examining interactions between recreational bodybuilders online. Gendered emotion ideologies, especially related to muscular masculinities, usually forbid men from exhibiting emotional vulnerability in front of other men, as emotional detachment is one of the ways gender hierarchies are maintained. Building on Connell's concept of 'hegemonic masculinity' and Hochschild's co…
A post-paradigmatic approach to analysing emotions in social life
Scholars studying emotions in social life typically work mono-logically, within a paradigmatic camp, drawing on distinct theories of emotion. In isolation, each offers a singular conceptualisation of emotions in social life. Working multi-logically, in contrast, offers richer, comparative insight into the layered meanings of emotion relevant to a social context. Rather than treating them as incommensurate, we not only argue for the benefits of dr…
New mothers and social support: A mixed-method study of young mothers in Australia
Motherhood can bring joy and enrichment but may also be associated with stress leading to poor health outcomes and low life satisfaction. Young mothers are a group particularly at risk of adverse outcomes, including increased social, economic, and health disadvantage following early entry to motherhood. This article reports results from a mixed-method study examining variations in levels of social support reported by mothers. Cross-sectional anal…
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