ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes, social reality unfolds at three levels—the micro, meso, and macro levels. And it is at the micro level of social organization that emotions are actually generated. Turner sees the distribution of positive and negative emotions in developed societies as another basis for grouping people into socio-economic classifications. It is difficult to explain the arousal of emotions without also understanding the effects of embedding of encounters and other micro social processes in higher levels of social reality. Value premises have been incorporated into ideologies, and ideologies have been blended into meta-ideologies. All the cultural systems are built from generalized symbolic media; and together, they have great power in determining the morality of a society. When expectations are realized or not realized, others in encounters are likely to issue, respectively, positive or negative sanctions, which immediately arouse emotions.
