Affect and Sociology : Reflection and Exploration through a Study of Media and Gender in Urban China

Li, Cheuk Yin (2015) Affect and Sociology : Reflection and Exploration through a Study of Media and Gender in Urban China. Graduate Journal of Social Science, 11 (1). pp. 15-37. ISSN 1572-3763

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Abstract

This paper aims to explore how affect can be registered to the interests of sociological research. It investigates how affect can be operationalised in empirical studies through a review of existing sociological literature, and illustrates the arguments made with ongoing research on zhongxing (neutral sex and/ or gender) sensibility in urban China. I illustrate how social sciences literature attempts to operationalise affect and how sociological literature in the sociology of emotion and the sociology of the body has addressed the corporeal and the emerging. This paper concludes that affect may provide an additional lens to sociological research, but, when appreciating the insights of affect, we should not abandon the established concepts and paradigms of sociology as a discipline.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Graduate Journal of Social Science
ID Code:
136612
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Deposited On:
16 Sep 2019 15:55
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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15 Jul 2024 19:50