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Affect and Sociology: Reflection and Exploration through a Study of Media and Gender in Urban China

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2015
<mark>Journal</mark>Graduate Journal of Social Science
Issue number1
Volume11
Number of pages23
Pages (from-to)15-37
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This paper aims to explore how affect can be registered to the interests of sociological research. It investigates how affect can be operationalised in
empirical studies through a review of existing sociological literature, and illustrates the arguments made with ongoing research on zhongxing (neutral sex and/
or gender) sensibility in urban China. I illustrate how social sciences literature attempts to operationalise affect and how sociological literature in the sociology
of emotion and the sociology of the body has addressed the corporeal and the
emerging. This paper concludes that affect may provide an additional lens to sociological research, but, when appreciating the insights of affect, we should not
abandon the established concepts and paradigms of sociology as a discipline.