The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Emotion investigates the role of emotions in key institutions understood as the frames and fabrics of society. It takes a critical look at society-framing institutions such as the state, the military, the market, and international organizations. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Contents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Emotion 1 Helena Flam PART I THEORIES OF EMOTIONS: GRAND, MIDDLE-RANGE AND MICRO‒MACRO 1 Emotional self-alienation and institutions: a Marxian approach to emotion and alienation in employment agencies and society 39 Ian Burkitt 2 Emotions and institutions in Simmel’s relational program: money, state, and nation 56 Olga Sabido Ramos 3 Norbert Elias, the ‘figurational school’ and the sociology of emotions 74 Helmut Kuzmics 4 History of the sociology of emotions: comments on hindrances and challenges to its development 92 Katharina Scherke PART II EMOTIONS IN INSTITUTIONS, POLITICAL REGIMES AND COMMUNITIES 5 National emotions 112 Yuval Feinstein 6 Emotions and state power: towards the ‘emotional state’ 129 Jonathan G. Heaney 7 Emotions and political regimes 152 Monika Verbalyte and Jogilė Ulinskaitė 8 Integrating rationality and emotion in legal institutions 174 Stina Bergman Blix and Åsa Wettergren 9 Feminist questions, emotional labor, and the legal profession: research on corporate litigators, defense lawyers, law students, and paralegals 199 Jennifer L. Pierce 10 Sociological issues in educational research on emotion and affect in the Global North 215 Michalinos Zembylas 11 Social studies of emotions and education in Latin America and Spain 235 Mariana Nobile 12 Remembered and retrieved: on emotions in organizations 252 Helena Flam 13 Doing family and intimacy at a distance: implications for theory and social change 274 Alessandro Pratesi 14 Emotions and digital technology in transnational families 294 Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain 15 Migration, institutions and emotions 313 Marina Ariza 16 What emotions teach us about religion: sociological approaches and the “affective turn” 330 N. Yasemin Ural and Marian Burchardt 17 War and the military 357 Helmut Kuzmics 18 Emotions in international relations 381 Maéva Clément and Simon Koschut 19 Parliamentary assemblies and emotions 401 Rosa Sanchez Salgado Conclusion to the Sociology of Emotion 416 Helena Flam