• DOI:10.1086/227049
Corpus ID: 143485249

Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure

@article{Hochschild1979EmotionWF,
  title={Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure},
  author={A. Hochschild},
  journal={American Journal of Sociology},
  year={1979},
  volume={85},
  pages={551 - 575}
}

A. Hochschild

Published 1979

Psychology

American Journal of Sociology

This essay proposes an emotion-management perspective as a lens through which to inspect the self, interaction, and structure. Emotion, it is argued, can be and ofter is subject to acts of management. The individual often works on inducing or inhibiting feelings so as to render them "appropriate" to a situation. The emotion-management perspective draws on an interactive account of emotion. It differs from the dramaturgical perspective on the one hand and the psychoanalytic perspective on the… CONTINUE READING

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