Selves, Societies, and Emotions

Building on contributions from sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, literature, and neuroscience, Henricks develops a more general account of how people discover and reproduce the "e;meanings"e; of their involvements with others. Among its many themes are treatments of selves as "e;projections of personhood,"e; of the ways in which self-expression has changed historically and is now experienced in our electronically mediated era, of emotions as "e;framing judgments,"e; and of ritual, play, communitas, and work as four distinctive "e;pathways of experience."e;