Acaso cabe imaginar un ser humano carente de sentimientos, emociones, afectos o estados de ánimo, en su relación con el mundo y con otros seres humanos? ¿Acaso el carácter, el curso o el destino de una relación social pueden entenderse al margen de lo sentido por los actores? Este libro pone de relieve el papel que juegan las emociones en la vida social, mostrando así la necesidad de incorporar el estudio de la dimensión afectiva en toda investigación sociológica. Relaciones de género, violencia, droga, traumas, reencuentro familiar, migración, discursos políticos, trabajo, e interacción socio-digital, son algunos de los fenómenos analizados en esta magnífica obra

The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Emotion investigates the role of emotions in key institutions understood as the frames and fabrics of society. It takes a critical look at society-framing institutions such as the state, the military, the market, and international organizations.

Over the past two decades, increased criminal and state violence has profoundly transformed everyday life in Mexico. In The Two Faces of Fear, Ana Villarreal draws on two years of qualitative fieldwork conducted during a major turf war in Monterrey, Mexico to trace the far-reaching impact of fear and violence on social ties, daily practices, and everyday spaces. Villarreal brings two seemingly contradictory faces of fear into focus--its ability to both isolate and concentrate people and resources, deepening inequality. While all residents of one of Mexico's largest metropolises confronted new threats, the most privileged leveraged vastly unequal resources to spatially concentrate and defend one municipality more fiercely than the rest. Within this defended city, business, nightlife, and public space thrived at the expense of the greater metropolis. The book puts forth a new approach to the study of emotion and provides tangible evidence of how quickly fear worsens inequality beyond Mexico and the "war on drugs."

This open access book presents a condensed history of Sociology in Mexico from its origins, through to the middle of the 19th century and up to the present day. The book analyses the interaction between sociology and the main economic, political and social change in the country, including the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the main social movements, the role of the intellectual exiles from Spain and Latin America, and the participation of women, who have often remained invisible in the history of sociology. The book explores how sociological discourse played a fundamental role in the separation of secular and public education and the search for a ‘national project’ from 1868 onwards, despite the lack of an institute of social research until 1930; how sociology became an autonomous social science, led by a few intellectuals and public figures, as it became institutionalized in universities, and the effect this had on the development of the discipline; the influence of Marxism during the 1970s; and the progression from a process of specialization after the fall of the Berlin Wall to a new trend of working in collective projects with an increasing interdisciplinary perspective in the first decades of the 21st century.

La apuesta por la inclusión de la dimensión emocional en la investigación social / Marina Ariza -- Sobre el odio de género y la misoginia feminicida / Perla O. Fragoso Lugo -- Interacción ritual al calor de la rabia y la indignación: experiencias de mujeres organizadas contra el feminicidio y por la legítima defensa / Diana Alejandra Silva Londoño -- "Valer o no valer": poder y estatus en rituales de socialización en varones que se inyectan drogas en Hermosillo, Sonora / Angélica Ospina-Escobar -- Lenguaje y emociones ocultas: testimonios de violencia y trauma / Gina Zabludovsky Kuper -- La dimensión afectiva en los procesos de retorno migratorio: el sinsabor de reencuentro familiar / Yeim Castro -- Emociones colectivas y estrategias argumentativas ante la inmigración "ilegal" en los discursos de Donald Trump / Marina Ariza y Silvia Gutiérrez -- El trabajo como vínculo socioafectivo: empleadoras y trabajadoras domésticas inmigrantes en la Ciudad de México / Tania Cuéllar Gutiérrez -- La vergüenza desde una perspectiva relacional: la propuesta de Georg Simmel y sus rendimientos teórico-metodológicos / Olga Sabido Ramos -- Interacción sociodigital y emociones: el uso juvenil de los emojis / Mariana Ramos -- Conclusiones / Marina Ariza.

This volume presents a compilation of composite indicators created in order to measure important aspects of the quality of European societies. It examines three main questions: do Europeans live in good societies and enjoy good lives; are European societies becoming better as time passes, or is their quality slowly deteriorating; is the quality of life of Europe’s citizens improving over time or is it gradually and irrecoverably getting worse. The volume uses a precise and rigorous system of information to answer these questions and to assess the current situation and monitor the quality of European societies. It describes and discusses fourteen key domains, and per chapter, presents five rankings of EU countries based on composite indicators, which are used as one of the best instruments social science has to synthesize a large amount of information, and they are especially well suited to measure multidimensional social phenomena. The new System of Indices on the Quality of European Societies (SIQES) presented in this volume offers a very broad and rich empirical overview of more than 70 social composite indicators and their nearly 300 dimensions. One of the key findings coming out from the SIQES is that, according to the societal quality of European countries, there exist five different “Europes” inside Europe.

This book analyzes the connections between social policies and politics of sensibilities. The authors show how social policies build sociabilities, experiences and sensibilities, producing processes of conflict avoidance and consecration of the given. After discussing violence against women as a case study in order to understand the current state of social policies, the authors then describe how the “place” and “value” of education have become central features to social policies in order to disband conflict. Finally, they explain the emergence of a social phenomenon in the last sixteen years in Latin America and particularly Argentina: the compensatory consumption system and the resulting emergence of the “assisted citizen.”