Our Emotions and Culture How Modern Life Changes Us
Our Emotions and Culture: How Modern Life Changes Us by E. Doyle McCarthy, published by Anthem Press on December 3, 2024, is an insightful exploration of the role emotions play in contemporary society. This 80-page book delves into how emotional culture influences various aspects of our lives, including markets, politics, and mass media. McCarthy emphasizes the necessity of emotional intelligence in navigating personal relationships and professional environments in today’s world.
Readers will find a thorough examination of how global capitalism and mass media have shaped emotional experiences, making them increasingly significant in public life. The book discusses the various contexts in which emotions manifest, such as shopping malls, concerts, and memorials, highlighting the pervasive nature of emotional happenings in modern society. With a focus on psychology, sociology, and cultural studies, this edition provides a comprehensive understanding of the intersection between emotions and social dynamics.
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In this highly readable book, Doyle McCarthy covers some of the main ways that emotions have become important in our global societies. She explains that emotional culture is important for understanding today’s world, its markets, its politics and its mass media. To live today is to be emotionally intelligent in our relations and in our workplaces. In the modern age, global capitalism and mass media have shaped our emotions and made us more emotional. Public life has become a place where we search out emotional happenings: at shopping malls, concerts, sports events, memorials to death and disaster and in the pursuit of sports.
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