Learning to Feel
The Neglected Sociology of Social Movements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3951508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian M Groves (0000-0001-7948-499X, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 435-461 |
| Publication date | 1995-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.1995.tb00610.x |
| OpenAlex | W2010356331 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper discusses the experience and ideology of emotions among animal rights activists, and more broadly, the applicability of the sociology of emotions to the field of social movements. I examine the case of a social movement which relies heavily on empathy in its initial recruitment, and which has been derisively labeled by outsiders as 'emotional'. I explain recruitment to animal rights activism by showing how activists develop a 'vocabulary of emotions' to rationalize their participation to others and themselves, along with managing the emotional tone of the movement by limiting the kinds of people who can take part in debates about animal cruelty. The interactive nature in which emotions develop in social movements is stressed over previous approaches to emotions in the social movement literature, which treat emotions as impulsive or irrational
Aesthetics · Animal rights · Criminology · Cruelty · Empathy · Field (mathematics · Ideology · Limiting · Movement (music · New social movements · Political science · Politics · Repetition (rhetorical device · Social movement · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
How risk perception shapes collective action intentions in repressive contexts
A song in a cold place
‘To be honest, it’s complicated’
Convictions of the Soul
Emotional reflexivity in the animal justice politics of sight
I don't really want to be associated with the self-righteous left extreme”
Group interaction as the crucible of social identity formation
Learning to Be Affected
Contesting Moral Capital in Campaigns Against Animal Liberation
Framing Cruelty
The Magic of Multiple Emotions
Introduction
Disadvantaged group activists' attitudes toward advantaged group allies in social movements
Emotions and Social Movements
Bringing The Outsiders In
Strategic Framing, Emotions, And Superbarrio—Mexico City's Masked Crusader
Building a Tower of Babel? Integrating Core Motivations and Features of Social Structure into the Political Psychology of Political Action
Identity as a barrier
Reconceptualizing resistance
Visualising abortion
White-Knuckle Research
The Laws of Passion
Introduction. The Moral and Affectual Dimension of Collective Action in South Asia
The personal is political
Strategic Role Taking and Political Struggle
Persona non grata
Performing politics
Identity, Emotion, and Feminist Collective Action
Anarcho-Environmentalists
Emotion Work, Commitment, and the Authentication of the Self
Activists and Emotional Reflexivity
Emotion work in animal rights activism
Achieving Emotions in Collective Action
Frames and Narratives as Tools for Recruiting and Sustaining Group Members
A Deviance Perspective on Social Movements
Emotional segregation
My God Wants Me to Live Simply
Research in Organizational Behavior
Social conflict and social movements.
Social Movements
The Vocabulary of Emotion
Never in anger
Tahitians
The animal rights crusade
Women's ways of knowing
Theory of collective behavior.
Reckoning with the Beast
Family
Knowledge and passion
The Logic of Collective Action
The Managed Heart
Experiments on the Provision of Public Goods. II. Provision Points, Stakes, Experience, and the Free-Rider Problem
A Theory of the Critical Mass. I. Interdependence, Group Heterogeneity, and the Production of Collective Action
Experiments on the Provision of Public Goods. I. Resources, Interest, Group Size, and the Free-Rider Problem
Psychological Factors in Civil Violence
Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation
Social Networks and Social Movements
Unnatural Emotions
Equals before God
Alienating and Liberating Emotions at Work
The Highs and Lows of Emotional Labor
Love and Intimacy
You Could be the Hundredth Monkey
Relative Deprivation and Social Movements
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,28 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |