Reconstructing the social constructionist view of emotions
From language to culture, including nonhuman culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Aranguren (0000-0002-1388-7902, Unité de Recherches Migrations et Sociétés Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Paris, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 244-260 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12132 |
| OpenAlex | W2551645540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 15 |
The thesis of social constructionism is that emotions are shaped by culture and society. I build on this insight to show that existing social constructionist views of emotions, while providing valid research methods, overly restrict the scope of the social constructionist agenda. The restriction is due to the ontological assumption that social construction is indissociable from language. In the first part, I describe the details of the influential social constructionist views of Averill and Harré. Drawing on recent theorizing in psychology, I suggest that their fixation on language makes these approaches inadequate to the analysis of the social construction of human emotional experience. In the second part, I extend the argument to other species, suggesting that these social constructionist views are incapable of accommodating the fact, ascertained by primatologists, that animals have cultures, and that part of animal culture concerns the social molding of their emotions. I conclude that a reconstructed social constructionism should be regarded not as inimical to, but as part and parcel of, a nonreductive biology of emotions
Argument (complex analysis · Constructionism · Epistemology · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Strict constructionism · Cultural Differences and Values · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Philosophy · Primate Behavior and Ecology
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How shallow is fear? Deepening the waters of emotion with a social/externalist account
Mapping urban multilingualism
Information, social networks and emotions
Nurtured and sorrowful
The social construction of character
Sexual Diversity
Chinese Migrant Workers' Care Experiences
Basic emotion theory, social constructionism, and the universal ethogram
Emotion And Adaptation
Cultures in chimpanzees
A Constructivist View of Emotion
Cultural learning
Primates--A Natural Heritage of Conflict Resolution
Consciousness and the varieties of emotion experience
The Social construction of emotions
Functional aspects of reconciliation among captive long‐tailed macaques ( Macaca fascicularis )
The social construction of reality
The question of animal culture
Culture in Nonhuman Primates
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |