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Emotions, Leisure and Society

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ID5785261
AuthorsJ Maguire (0000-0003-3547-2799, corresponding author), Joseph A Maguire
Year2011
Volume14
Issue7-8
Pages913-926
Publication date2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Sport Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-0981 • E-ISSN: 1743-0445
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17430437.2011.603548
OpenAlexW1970755538
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited22

In this paper, a version of which was written in the early 1990s, I linked a discussion of the embodied emotions, leisure and society with a consideration of the issue of pleasure. In doing so I provided a critical evaluation of how leisure, pleasure and the emotions are intertwined in late modern/postmodern societies. At the time of writing the study of the interconnections between the emotions, leisure and society has been relatively neglected. When the issue of leisure and the emotions was studied it tended to be examined from either a psychological perspective or by sociologists located within so-called 'agency' or 'interpretative' theories. In contrast, I argued that it was necessary to spell out the nature of the interdependencies between emotions, leisure and society. This approach seeks to grasp the interplay between the psychological make-up of people, historical processes and social structures. An attempt was made to critically review and evaluate the contribution made by a range of socio-cultural perspectives and to provide a synthesis which would more adequate explain the meaning and significance of sport and embodied emotions. Notes 1 A version of this article was published prviously as CitationMaguire, 'Towards a Sociological Theory of Sport and the Emotions: A Process-Sociological Perspective' in Dunning and Rojek, eds, Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process: Critique and Counter-Critique. 2 CitationElias and Dunning, Quest for Excitement. 3 CitationFiske, Television Culture. 4 CitationDurkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life, 397, cited in CitationScheff, 'Towards Integration', 334. 5 CitationElias, 'On Human Beings and Their Emotions'. 6 Scheff, 'Toward Integration'; CitationKemper, 'Social Constructionist'. 7 Elias, 'On Human Beings'. 8 CitationShott, 'Emotions and Social Life'; CitationDenzin, On Understanding Emotion. 9 CitationZurcher, 'The Staging of Emotion'; CitationGallmeier, 'Putting on the Game Face'. 10 CitationElias, What is Sociology?; 'On Human Beings'. 11 In the original, the review of symbolic interactionist, phenomenological, feminist and cultural studies approaches the study of emotions, including reference to related sociology of sport research (see Zurcher, 'The Staging of Emotion'; Gallmeier, 'Putting on the Game Face'; CitationSnyder 'Emotion and Sport'; CitationRail 'Physical Contact'; CitationDuncan and Brummet 'Types and Sources'; CitationDonnelly 'Sport Subcultures'). 12 Snyder 'Emotion and Sport'; Shott, 'Emotions and Social Life'; CitationDenzin 'Emotion as Lived Experience'. 13 Zurcher, 'The Staging of Emotion', 2. 14 Denzin, On Understanding Emotion. 15 Denzin 'Emotion as Lived Experience', 226. 16 Fiske, Television Culture. 17 CitationMulvey, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'. 18 Fiske, Television Culture, 225. 19 Mulvey, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'. 20 CitationBarthes, The Pleasure of the Text. 21 Fiske, Television Culture, 233. 22 CitationBakhtin, Rabelais and his World. 23 Fiske, Television Culture. 24 Fiske, Television Culture 25 CitationTurner, British Cultural Studies, 221. 26 CitationHochschild, The Managed Heart. 27 CitationGoffman, Encounters. 28 Hochschild, The Managed Heart, 19. 29 Elias, 'On Human Beings', 339. 30 Elias, 'On Human Beings', 347. 31 Elias, 'On Human Beings', 360-1. 32 CitationElias, The Civilising Process. 33 The following discussion of Elias and Dunning refers to Elias and Dunning, Quest for Excitement. 34 CitationGaskell and Pearton, 'Aggression and Sport'. 35 CitationDunning, 'The Dynamics of Modern Sport'. 36 CitationBryson, 'Challenges to Male Hegemony'; CitationWhitson, 'Sport in the Social Construction'. 37 CitationDunning, 'Sport as a Male Preserve'. 38 Denzin, On Understanding Emotion; Hochschild, The Managed Heart; Rail, 'Physical Contact'. 39 CitationKemper, Researcher Agendas. 40 CitationRojek, Capitalism and Leisure Theory. 41 CitationGolding and Murdock, 'Culture, Communications'. 42 CitationGoudsblom, Sociology in the Balance. 43 Elias, 'On Human Beings', 350. 44 CitationFeatherstone, 'The Body in Consumer Culture', 18. 45 CitationFeatherstone, 'The Body in Consumer Culture', 18 46 See CitationShilling, 'Educating the Body'. 47 Kemper, Researcher Agendas. 48 CitationBourdieu, Distinction

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