ABSTRACT
SOCIOLOGISTS HAVE GENERALLY ESCHEWED systematic inquiry into the emotions. This is understandable, in as much as sociologists ordinarily concern themselves with patterns of group organization and social structure. The emotions, on the other hand, are physiological and psychological phenomena, experienced-by and measured-in individual organisms. Even social psychology—which deals with the effects of social patterns on individuals—has concerned itself little with emotions per se, though many of the results of social psychological experiments are pertinent to the study of emotions. […]
