Böcker av Helmut Kuzmics

Presents a cross-disciplinary study, combining historical macro-sociology and a sociology of emotions with historical anthropology and cultural studies. This book charts the development of political authority structures in their varied historical manifestations, as well as their affective sedimentation as collective habitus (national character).

Presents findings on the role of emotions in various facets of society, from the laboratory to the office to the media. This title discusses topics that include: the tensions between feelings and feeling rules, the conscious and unconscious emotions of scientists, emotions and social disorder, and romantic love in US and Israeli codes of conduct.