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Making Sense of Affective Action, Part 1

Posted on June 18, 2024 by Seth Abrutyn

Besides Charles Cooley and Emile Durkheim, most classical sociological theorists looked askance at emotions. The Cartesian duality that sees rationality, reason, and logic as masculine and emotion and feeling as feminine was alive and well. I’ve tackled the idea that … Continue reading →

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Why Not Affectivism?

Posted on April 29, 2024 by Seth Abrutyn

Sociology is, at least in part, the science of social behavior. Or (just) behavior? From one angle, sociologists look at the mechanisms or forces or dynamics, depending on your persuasion, shaping, constraining, and enabling behavior. We might call this the … Continue reading →

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