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The emotional face and the sociology of instability
1st World Congress on Facial Expression of Emotion
António Pedro Dores (Oct. 2014)
Argument
• There is a problem with social sciences disciplines: they do not communicate to each other (and beyond)
• The problem´s name – centripetal policy
• There is the time to reverse it – we need centrifugal social sciences policies
Two parts
I - What are sciences useful for?
II – A sociological contribution for
emotions conceptualization
Cartesian social utopia
society
psycho-biology
deity - normsGod facefaces down
People´s multiple facesface up
communities´s facesface up
Political facefaces down
Is there society at all?
“There is no such thing as society!”
Mrs. Thatcher
What is the use of sociology (and humanities, and social sciences)?
Is not it economics enough? Weak forces that happens to reveal strength?
Social sciences division
Socio-economics
Psychology – techno-sciences
Political science – International relations
Damasio´s critique
The thinking habit of conceive unity on tissues should be compatible with the autonomy of cells
Social critique to biology
Tissues and organs struggle for life as much as societies do.
“O povo unido jamais será vencido”“United, no one ever defeat us”
Difficult it is, life depends on unity. Still, one lives. How it happens?
Physics critique on sociology
Instable non living societal organizations of matter (cybernetics;artificial intelligence )
Be it micro, meso or cosmic dimensions (weak are strong)
What is social instability?
• 1st (weak) consciousness built by instability find it self hoping for (strong) stability
• 2nd to face auto instability claims for a lot of energy
• 3rd saving self energy can spend a lot of other´s energy (from society, slaves, nature)
• 4th to face instability becomed a evolutio-nary cognitive need (global warming; w(a)r-rying)
What do we need?
Weak and strong energy from cosmos:
a) strong inspiration – to protect us from ourselves;
b) weak effort – to claim from out of the humans whatever energy is needed to organize better life.
We need moral-ecological inspiration for our sciences. Should we look for it?
Out of centripetal policy• Along with hipper specialization draw by
state-corporate labeling interests, one need to develop a transversal treadmill across sciences and humanities for social sciences survival sake
• That is the time for centrifugal sciences and crossing concepts (such as weak and strong; emotions and bonds)
Sciences Social sciences
Weak force (inner atoms)
Emotions (secret and changing
forces)
Agents
Strong force (matter centrifuging)
Bonds(power and conservative
forces)
Structures
II PartSocial sciences contributions
Thomas Scheff definition of social emotion:
1. Bodies feel deep inside threatens to the social bonds
2. Bodies produce shame emotions to deal with social threats to their social bonds
Enlargement of the concept
Societies Pre-modern Modern
Main emotion
Fear Shame
Definition Risk for life (body
reproduction)
Risk for social bond
(status)
Modes of behavior: civilized and violent
Politics Culture
Economics SocietyShame
Capitalism Industrialism
War Social Control (security)
Fear
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The nature of human sociability
Done Said
Being
Well being
Fear Shameof breaking the lawof social isolation
shame and fear of bad shape (death)
Sociology of instability• Different social situations claim for different
faces on the same person (characters)• Historical situations claim for different faces
of the same society (norms)
• Crossing norms and characters regarding different situations make our lives instable: that´s the source of all emotions
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