ABSTRACT
Since the 1970s sociologists have done abundant research regarding the position of emotions in social life and on the in uence of emotions on human interaction. In a review of the literature Jonathan Turner and Jan Stets have identied seven types of sociological theory of emotions, which are (1) dramaturgical and cultural theories, (2) ritual theories, (3) symbolic interactionist theories, (4) symbolic interactionist theories incorporating psychoanalytic ideas, (5) exchange theories, (6) structural theories, and (7) evolutionary theories (Turner & Stets 2005; Stets & Turner 2007). Each of these approaches focuses on emotions in social life in dierent dimensions.1
