Methods in Dialogue: Emotions
Date: 25 February 2009, 3-5pm
Location: Rooms 2.016/2.017 (Boardroom), Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester
Workshop summary
Metaphor and Researching Emotions - Lynne Cameron, Open University
The metaphors that people use often convey emotions, feelings and attitudes as well as content. This presentation will show how metaphors do this, and how metaphor analysis can help in researching emotions.
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'Using emotions as an instrument of knowing' Wendy Hollway, Open University
My contribution aims to go beyond the treatment of emotions in the research process as 'subjective' and to be avoided. I will argue that reflexivity can incorporate the use of researchers' emotions as long as these are understood psycho-socially and as part of intersubjective dynamics. In data analytic practice this use needs to be subject to checks and balances to support the safety of interpretations.
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'The Allure of Restraint: Doing emotionless sociology' - Carol Smart, The Morgan Centre, University of Manchester
In this session I shall explore Sociology's complex relationship to emotions, looking at the 'passion' and 'passionlessness' of the early discipline and its later political emotions in areas such as gender and disability. But my main focus will be on how contemporary sociology can capture and represent the emotions of ordinary folk in everyday life. This entails less a sociology passionate about its own voice and more a sociology able to recognise and deal with the emotions of ordinary people.
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