Why functionalist accounts of emotion tend to be tenuous in social and cultural contexts. A commentary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21504744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Von Scheve (0000-0003-4296-6623, Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 406-410 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognition & Emotion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-9931 • E-ISSN: 1464-0600 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02699931.2022.2047010 |
| PMID | 35639089 |
| OpenAlex | W4281993827 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
The present contribution provides some constructive criticism of Keltner's and colleagues proposal for advancing the Social Functionalist Theory of emotion. I first briefly summarise some of the key premises of Social Functionalist Theory and then provide more detailed comments on the four key principles of the theory concerning emotional experience, cognition, expression, and the cultural archiving of emotion. I develop the argument that the link between emotions and the six relational needs (security, commitment, status, trust, fairness, and belongingness) emphasised by Keltner and colleagues are likely to differ across cultural and historical contexts. Moreover, I suggest that practices and representations of emotion are neither consistent nor uniform. Instead, they are frequently tied to strategic attempts at manufacturing relational emotions for political purposes. Third, I argue that whether emotions are functional for the social and cultural world is a matter of perspective
Affective science · Belongingness · Cognition · Cognitive science · Constructive · Constructive criticism · Criticism · Emotion classification · Epistemology · Politics · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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Structures of social life
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Shame in Two Cultures
Affective politics and colonial heritage, Rhodes Must Fall at UCT and Oxford
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The need to belong
Bringing Emotions Into Social Exchange Theory
The Stratification of Emotions
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |