Expressive Order: Confirming Sentiments in Social Actions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441942562)

Preface.- Part I Affect Control Theory, Plainly Told.- Introduction .- Affect control theory.- Utility of the Theory .- Overview of the Book.- Further Readings.- Sentiments.- Evaluation, Potency, and Activity (EPA).-Measuring EPA .- Universality of EPA.- Further Readings.- Culture.- Consensus.- Individuality Versus Norms.- Measurement Implications.- Cultural Stability.- Instability or Unreliability? .- Variations Across Cultures.- Further Readings .- Sub-Cultures.- Gender.- A Pseudo-Sub-Culture.- Gendered Traits.- Gay Christians .- Deviance Sub-Cultures.- Non-Normalized Deviants .- Occupations.- Further Readings.- Defining Situations.- Identities.- Institutions.- Cues to Institutions.- Selves.- Multiple Identities.- Identity Modifiers.- Further Readings.- Interpreting Actions.- Action Frames.- Institutional Coherence.- Affective Processing .- Impression Formation.- Stability.- Behavior Effects.- Diminishment.- Consistencies.- Congruencies.- Balance.- States of Being .- Cross-Cultural Variations.- Versus Sentiments-Deflection.- Identifying Behaviors .- Further Readings .- Building Actions.-Selecting a Behavior.- Social Interaction.- Groups .- Avoiding Diminishment .- Social Roles .- Medicine.- Law .- Work Roles .- Macroactions .- Informal Roles.- Deviance.- Interactions With Deviants.- Interactions Among Deviants.- Further Readings .- Emotions .- Emotions as Signals.- Impressions and Emotions .- Characteristic and Structural Emotions .- Solidarity .- Emotions and Motivation .- Stress .- Self-Sentiments and Stress .- Emotions and Stress .- Emotions of Deviants.- Further Readings.- Changing Sentiments.- Re-identification .- Identity Filtering.- Labeling Deviants .- Attribution .- Inferences From Emotionality.- Identity Fluctuation.- Sentiment Change.- New Sentiments .- Enculturation.- Turning Points.- Further Readings.- Selves.- Salient Identities.- Commitment and Alienation.- Deviance Forays .- Deviants .- Self-Repugnance .- Patterns of Deviance .- Self-Fluctuation.- Cultural Shifts in Self .- Further Readings.- Part II Mathematics of Affect Control Theory .- Event Likelihood.- Optimal Behavior.- Incorporating Settings.- Self-Directed Action .- Optimal Identity.- Re-identifying Actors.- Re-identifying Object Persons .- Modifiers .- Emotions.- Characteristic Emotion.- Attributes.- Emotions and Re-identification .- Inferences From Mood.- Elaborations.- Self and Identities.- Minimizing Inauthenticity.- Illustrative Analyses.- Optimal Behavior.- Optimal Re-identifications.- Emotions and Re-identification.- Programming the Model.- Organization of Analyses.- Emotionality Constraints .- Impression-Formation Equations.- Selection .- Algorithms.- Part III Researching Affect Control Theory.- Growth of Affect Control Theory.- Chronology .- Branches.- Measurement of Affective Dimensions.- Impression Formation.- Theory and Mathematics.- Self.- Computer Programming.- Experiments.- Emotions.- Sub-Cultures, Gender, Ideology.- Life Course.- Social Structure, Social Change.- Politics .- Deviance .- Language and Arts.- Business .- Simulations.- Conducting Simulations.- Define Interactants Form.- Define Situation Form.- Define Events Form.- Analyze Events Form.- View Report Form .- Other Capabilities .- Errors.- Different Versions of Interact .- Further Readings .- Basic Concepts in Affect Control Theory.- References .- Index