BY RASHEEDA SOTO
The sociology of emotion applies sociological theories and techniques to the study of human emotions. As sociology emerged primarily as a reaction to the negative effects of modernity many theories deal in some sense with emotion without forming a part of any specific subdisapline. Marx described capitalism as detrimental to personal humans or species.
The sociology of emotions is a new complex component of sociology, It gained awareness around the 1970's. Before this time, the field of sociology concentrated more on cognition emotions, although emotions have often remained a subtext in important works. Emotions were seen as the turf of psychologists and biologists. Sociologists began to systematically study emotions because they realized that emotions are fundamentally social, and that emotions have always figured as causal mechanisms in sociological theory. They are necessary to the theories of some of the most influential figures in sociology Like as Emile Durkheim and Erving Goffman. Which we learned about their views on different things though the past weeks of class. Emotions are of sociological interest because they are a primary human motivation, they help in rational decision-making, and they link the biology of the body with classic sociological questions about social construction and social control. I feel emotions are very important. Without these emotions we feel Human and animal life would have no purpose. I feel one purpose is to have feeling and disgutinush the moments when u feel happy, sad, mad confused etc. List list of emotion goes on and on.. For example, modern marriage is, on one hand, based on the emotion of love and on the other hand the very emotion is to be worked on and regulated by it. Modern science could not exist without the emotion of curiosity but it
