What is shameful in one culture might not be in another. Along these lines, Bartlett taught: While the concepts of psychological and emotional capital certainly have their utility, my work reveals that they are somewhat limited. . . . As anthropological studies of emotions have demonstrated, emotions are utterly cultural and social. . . . People learn feeling. . . . Socio-interactionally produced emotions like shame play an important role in the cultural production of inequality.653
Samson experiences some shame when realizing he would struggle to teach in a lecture format or in guiding discussion about written material.
