Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality: Part/Whole Analysis

Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction

by Thomas J. Scheff

In his important new book, Thomas Scheff offers an innovative approach to researching human behavior that relates the smallest parts of social interaction to the greatest wholes of social structure. These are the details and connections usually found only in the finest novels, but Scheff combines the insights of the humanities and social sciences to capture the same evocative details of sight, sound and context, better to understand what he calls "human reality". He puts a fresh emphasis on the importance of emotions in the social bond, and describes in newly subtle ways the outer and inner lives of persons in real life, such as inner city children, and in fiction, such as Jane Austen's heroines. By closely observing the significance of words and gestures, in the context in which they occur, he is able to illuminate the connection between people's lives and the society in which they live.

264 pages, Paperback

First published September 4, 1997

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[Zetsya nura · Rating 2 out of 5]

from the title, it could be seen that most scientist analize something which factors inside of it