Sociology of emotions

The sociology of emotion applies sociological theorems and techniques to the study of human emotions. As sociology emerged primarily as a reaction to the negative effects of modernity, many normative theories deal in some sense with emotion without forming a part of any specific subdiscipline: Karl Marx described capitalism as detrimental to personal 'species-being', Georg Simmel wrote of the deindividualizing tendencies of 'the metropolis', and Max Weber's work dealt with the rationalizing effect of modernity in general.

My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love - a picture of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in a socialist fraternal kiss.
My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love - a picture of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in a socialist fraternal kiss.

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