RT Journal Article
T1 What is Love? Discourse about Emotions in Social Sciences
A1 Belli, Simone
A1 Harré, Rom
A1 Íñiguez, Lupicinio
AB The  study  of  emotions  has  been  one  of  the  most  important  areas  of  research  in  the  Social  Sciences.  Social  Psychology  has  also  contributed  to  the  development  of  this  area.  In  this  article  we  analyse  the contribution of social Psychology to the study of emotion, understood as a social construct, and its strong relationship  with  language.  Specifically,  we  open  a  discussion  on  the  basis  of  the  general  characteristics  of  the  Social  Psychology  of  emotions  and  the  contributions  from  different  disciplines  in  this  area  of  research,  to  give  meaning  to  the  relationship  they  have  with  the  language  of  emotions.  In  this  regard,  we  have  reviewed  basic  references  for  the  study  of  the  construction  of  an  emotion,  and  thematically  classified  them  into  three  broad  categories:  1)  Contributions  from  different  backgrounds  and  perspectives;  2)  Construction  and  de-construction  studies  of  emotion,  and  3)  Postconstructionist  studies  of  emotion.  In  the  first  category,  we  consider  the  main  contributions  from  the  Social  Sciences,  which  can  be  summarized  in  two  areas:  philosophical-construction  of  an  emotion;  mainstream-psychology  of  emotion.  In  the  second  category  we  have  began  with  the  relationship  between  emotion  and  language  and  the  social  construction  of  emotion,  i.e., its discursive status. We end with postconstructionist theories, i.e., Butler’s concept of performance and technoscience.  To  give  more  meaning  to  this  line  of  research,  the  use  of  a  concrete  example  of  emotion  seemed appropriate. Thus, we chose “love”.
PB SAP-Slovak Academic Press
SN 1210-3055
YR 2010
FD 2010-09-22
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102491
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102491
LA eng
NO Belli, Simone, Harré, Rom and íñiguez, Lupicinio. "What is Love? Discourse about Emotions in Social Sciences" Human Affairs, vol. 20, no. 3, 2010, pp. 249-270. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10023-010-0026-8
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025