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TY - JOUR
T1 - Affect and Sociology
T2 - Reflection and Exploration through a Study of Media and Gender in Urban China
AU - Li, Cheuk Yin
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper aims to explore how affect can be registered to the interests of sociological research. It investigates how affect can be operationalised inempirical 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 sociologyof emotion and the sociology of the body has addressed the corporeal and theemerging. This paper concludes that affect may provide an additional lens to sociological research, but, when appreciating the insights of affect, we should notabandon the established concepts and paradigms of sociology as a discipline.
AB - This paper aims to explore how affect can be registered to the interests of sociological research. It investigates how affect can be operationalised inempirical 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 sociologyof emotion and the sociology of the body has addressed the corporeal and theemerging. This paper concludes that affect may provide an additional lens to sociological research, but, when appreciating the insights of affect, we should notabandon the established concepts and paradigms of sociology as a discipline.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
SP - 15
EP - 37
JO - Graduate Journal of Social Science
JF - Graduate Journal of Social Science
SN - 1572-3763
IS - 1
ER -