ABSTRACT
Hochschild’s approach to cognition is ultimately one which supports her prioritisation of social factors in her new theory of emotion. This is unsurprising, as Hochschild does develop a social theory. However, it also suggests that her theory is not as inclusive of biopsycho approaches as others have claimed (S. Williams 1998a). Chapter 4 demonstrates this by looking at how she integrates Darwin’s theory of gesture and Freud’s notion of the conscious and unconscious mind, with social interactionists Dewey, Gerth and Mills, Mead and Goffman. Identifying the significance of this prioritisation in the formulation of her theory is important, because it underpins how she conceptualises emotion management, surface and deep acting and the self. Restricting the relevance of the biopsycho nature of emotion results in these concepts having significant limitations, which impacts on how the process of emotion management is understood to occur, and in how it is related to the self. This is significant to nursing, because it is Hochschild’s notion of emotion management that has been applied to it.
