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Symbolic Interactionism as Affect Control

Symbolic Interactionism as Affect Control

MacKinnon, Neil J.

Paperback

Series: Suny the Sociology of Emotions

CognitionGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0791420426
ISBN13: 9780791420423
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 4 1994
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.85 Depth: 8.93
Language: English

A synthesis of symbolic interactionism and Affect Control Theory showing how emotion, meaning, and identity dynamically organize social life.

What happens when meaning, emotion, and identity are not separate forces-but expressions of a single, organizing system of social life?

In Symbolic Interactionism as Affect Control, Neil J. MacKinnon offers a major synthesis of symbolic interactionist theory and Affect Control Theory, showing how shared cultural meanings shape not only how we interpret the world, but how we feel, act, and sustain a sense of social order. Moving beyond traditional divides in sociological thought, the book demonstrates how affective meaning operates as a core mechanism linking cognition, motivation, identity, and emotion.Drawing on the foundational work of George Herbert Mead, as well as contemporary advances in social psychology, MacKinnon traces how individuals continuously evaluate and produce social events through culturally learned affective expectations. He shows how identities are stabilized through interaction, how emotions function as both signals and regulators of meaning, and how role behavior can be systematically analyzed within a unified theoretical framework.

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