Expressive Order: Confirming Sentiments in Social Actions

Hardcover, xiii + 163 pages, NOT ex-library. Book looks unread, minor handling wear; clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Part I Affect Control Theory, Plainly Told 1. Introduction [Affect control theory; Utility of the Theory; Overview of the Book; Further Readings] 2. Sentiments [Evaluation, Potency, and Activity (EPA); Measuring EPA; Universality of EPA; Further Readings] 3. Culture [Consensus (Individuality vs Norms; Measurement Implications); Cultural Stability (Instability or Unreliability?); Variations Across Cultures; Further Readings] 4. Sub-Cultures [Gender (A Pseudo-Sub-Culture; Gendered Traits); Gay Christians; Deviance Sub-Cultures (Non-Normalized Deviants); Occupations; Further Readings] 5. Defining Situations [Identities; Institutions (Cues to Institutions); Selves; Multiple Identities (Identity Modifiers); Further Readings] 6. Interpreting Actions [Action Frames (Institutional Coherence); Affective Processing (Impression Formation; Stability; Behavior Effects; Object Diminishment; Consistencies; Congruencies; Balance; States of Being; Cross-Cultural Variations); Impressions Versus Sentiments—Deflection; Identifying Behaviors; Further Readings] 7. Building Actions [Selecting a Behavior; Social Interaction (Groups; Avoiding Diminishment); Social Roles (Medicine; Law; Work Roles; Macroactions; Informal Roles); Deviance (Interactions with Deviants; Interactions Among Deviants); Further Readings] 8. Emotions [Emotions as Signals; Impressions and Emotions; Characteristic and Structural Emotions (Solidarity); Emotions and Motivation; Stress (Self-Sentiments and Stress; Emotions and Stress); Emotions of Deviants; Further Readings] 9. Changing Sentiments [Re-identification (Identity Filtering; Labeling Deviants; Attribution; Inferences from Emotionality; Identity Fluctuation); Sentiment Change (New Sentiments; Enculturation; Turning Points); Further Readings] 10. Selves [Salient Identities (Commitment and Alienation); Deviance Forays; Deviants (Self-Repugnance; Patterns of Deviance); Self-Fluctuation (Cultural Shifts in Self); Further Readings]; Part II Mathematics of Affect Control Theory 11. Event Likelihood 12. Optimal Behavior [Incorporating Settings; Self-Directed Action] 13. Optimal Identity [Re-identifying Actors; Re-identifying Object Persons] 14. Modifiers [Emotions (Characteristic Emotion); Attributes] 15. Emotions and Re-identification [Inferences from Mood; Elaborations] 16. Self and Identities [Minimizing Inauthenticity] 17. Illustrative Analyses [Optimal Behavior; Optimal Re-identifications; Emotions and Re-identification] 18. Programming the Model [Organization of Analyses (Emotionality Constraints); Impression-Formation Equations; Selection Matrices; Algorithms]; Part III Researching Affect Control Theory 19. Growth of Affect Control Theory [Chronology; Branches (Measurement of Affective Dimensions; Impression Formation; Theory and Mathematics; Self; Computer Programming; Experiments; Emotions; Sub-Cultures, Gender, Ideology; Life Course; Social Structure, Social Change; Politics; Deviance; Language and Arts; Business)] 20. Simulations [Conducting Simulations (Define Interactants Form; Define Situation Form; Define Events Form; Analyze Events Form; View Report Form); Other Capabilities; Errors (Different Versions of Interact); Further Readings]; A. Basic Concepts in Affect Control Theory; References; Index -- This book introduces affect control theory to lay readers of sociology, and additionally guides sociology specialists into the theory's deep structure. It is the most comprehensive available introduction to affect control theory, an important and expanding framework in sociology. The book describes in plain language how sociology's best developed cybernetic model can be used to interpret actions and emotions that arise in everyday life.…