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03.06.2016 | Culture and Society

Emotion, Organization, and Society

verfasst von: Rupert Hodder

Erschienen in: Society | Ausgabe 4/2016

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Abstract

A popular view which has long been in general circulation is that complex human society, while aided partly by instinctive and emotional survival responses, has had to learn to control those responses through norms and other cultural means. I argue that emotion is the basis of organization; and suggest that emotion and organization emerged in concert with art, music and other kinds of symbols and abstract thought.

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Metadaten
Titel
Emotion, Organization, and Society
verfasst von
Rupert Hodder
Publikationsdatum
03.06.2016
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Society / Ausgabe 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-016-0038-0

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