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(2014) : Status, Power and Felicity In: Stets, Jan E.; Turner, Jonathan H. (Hg.): Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions: Volume II: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research), S. 155-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9130-4_8 Abstract: Status-power theory provides a broad approach to emotions based on the idea that a large class of emotions results from 'real, recollected or imagined outcomes of social interaction,' with interaction defined in status-power terms. In this chapter, I address the relationship between status-power outcomes and the emotion/feeling of felicity (happiness, satisfaction, contentment or well-being). In prior statements of the theory happiness was predicted from the interaction outcome of improvement in status (or standing) in a group, e.g., receiving a compliment, winning a prize, gaining a promotion; and also from the relational condition of providing status to another actor, especially notable in the case of love. This position is still maintained here, but new work in status-power theory (described in this chapter) and on how to formulate positive emotions leads to a more differentiated approach to the question of what kinds of social relations make a person feel happy. First , I will briefly review status-power theory, including an up-dated conceptualization of happiness-relevant outcomes, focusing on four relational conditions in the status-power approach. Second, I will present some general considerations that bear on status-power outcomes and happiness. Third, I will review the literature pertaining to happiness outcomes in the four relational conditions. Finally, because many students of happiness believe happiness is an outcome of living a 'meaningful' life, I will consider the status-power significance of meaningfulness (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 5
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