"Emotions play very little part in most theories of social behavior. They are either omitted entirely or, at best, treated as an undifferentiated residue. (...) The main components of Marxian theory are basic drives, such as hunger and the need for shelter, economic considerations of profit and loss and the relentless of capital and technology. (...) The students of collective behavior, beginning with Durkheim, Tarde, and LeBon, were quite concerned about the emotions of crowds, but they made no attempt to describe differences in the emotional responses of crowds, or the effects of these differences. These theorists tended to see emotion as antisocial and irrational. This bias is quite clear in Weber, who makes the assumption that action based on emotion is not rational."
chapter 1: introduction: emotions and catharsis
p.3, in "Catharsis in Healing, Ritual and Drama" By Thomas J. Scheff
"But the difference (in terms of feeling and emotion) between the normal stock market and the sudden depression in stocks is the difference between one affective state of stockbrokers and another affective state. It is highly questionable whether emotion enters into the life of stockbrokers only when there is panic, that emotion makes people act only irrationally. Surely emotion and sentiment are active ingredients in rational behavior as well. A normal day at the stock market, not simply during a panic, would amply show that feelings of satisfaction, excitement, anxiety, anguish and glee, are all part of a good (rational) day's work. Weber mistakes actual emotionlessness for the prevailing norm of affective neutrality we suppose stockbrokers have internalized. If all stockbrokers were to stop caring about what seems like colorless stock prices and to experience "the rat race" as no more meaningful than anything else, the stock market would deviate from what it would be under conditions of normal emotionality."
chapter 1: introduction: emotions and catharsis
p.5, in "Catharsis in Healing, Ritual and Drama" By Thomas J. Scheff
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