Arlie Hochschild
Drawing on the work of Arlie Hochschild, I will argue that Hochschild’s theory of emotion management best describes my experience. Emotions were internally judged by myself and therefore, attempted to changed based on the cultural context I was in and the interaction I was engaged in. This essay will discuss how emotion work occurred during an everyday interaction to maintain feeling rules. Therefore, changing the display of emotion appropriate for the situation. Emotion work as Hochschild calls is explains the psychological and emotional changes a person undergoes to supress the emotions they’re feeling. (Turner & Stets 2005, 36) Emotions try to physically change how they feel through body work and surface acting. Followed through by deep
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Hochschild adopts elements of Goffman’s theory and aspects of Marx’s interpretation of alienation. “Marx argued that alienation emerges when workers are unable to control the relationship among what they produce, how they produce it and to whom they sell the products of their labour, Hochschild argues that alienation emerges in the contemporary world when individuals are unable to control the relationship between what they must do and how they must feel.” (Turner & Stets 2005, 40) Individuals engage in conscious or unconscious performances, putting on different masks, with a scripts in various cultural constructs. (Turner & Stets 2005, …show more content…
Consequently, the emotion has not really been managed, making it unpredictable and volatile. Unacknowledged repressed emotion allows for the possibility that it may express, influence or motivate further emotion responses which bypass cognitive process.” (Theodosius 2006, 8)The difficulty with her thesis is Hochschild focuses on feeling rules within the context of an interaction. (Turner & Stets 2005, 39)“she examines the relationship between emotional experience, feeling rules and ideological contextual relationship with which she examines emotion is specific to social relations and to ideology.” (Theodosius 2006 901). I would argue, emotion work is more complex. Particularly during my interaction I wasn’t able supress the negative emotions enough to completely convince myself I was feeling okay and perhaps there are more cognitive processes going on that what is presented in Hochchild’s
Hochschild adopts elements of Goffman’s theory and aspects of Marx’s interpretation of alienation. “Marx argued that alienation emerges when workers are unable to control the relationship among what they produce, how they produce it and to whom they sell the products of their labour, Hochschild argues that alienation emerges in the contemporary world when individuals are unable to control the relationship between what they must do and how they must feel.” (Turner & Stets 2005, 40) Individuals engage in conscious or unconscious performances, putting on different masks, with a scripts in various cultural constructs. (Turner & Stets 2005, …show more content…
Consequently, the emotion has not really been managed, making it unpredictable and volatile. Unacknowledged repressed emotion allows for the possibility that it may express, influence or motivate further emotion responses which bypass cognitive process.” (Theodosius 2006, 8)The difficulty with her thesis is Hochschild focuses on feeling rules within the context of an interaction. (Turner & Stets 2005, 39)“she examines the relationship between emotional experience, feeling rules and ideological contextual relationship with which she examines emotion is specific to social relations and to ideology.” (Theodosius 2006 901). I would argue, emotion work is more complex. Particularly during my interaction I wasn’t able supress the negative emotions enough to completely convince myself I was feeling okay and perhaps there are more cognitive processes going on that what is presented in Hochchild’s