In a kind of social tour of sympathy, Candace Clark reveals that the emotional experience we call sympathy has a history, logic, and life of its own. Although sympathy may seem to be a natural, reflexive reaction, people are not born knowing when, for whom, and in what circumstances sympathy is appropriate. Rather, they learn elaborate, highly specific rules—different rules for men than for women—that guide when to feel or display sympathy, when to claim it, and how to accept it. Using extensive interviews, cultural artifacts, and "intensive eavesdropping" in public places, such as hospitals and funeral parlors, as well as analyzing charity appeals, blues lyrics, greeting cards, novels, and media reports, Clark shows that we learn culturally prescribed rules that govern our expression of sympathy. "Clark's . . . research methods [are] inventive and her glimpses of U.S. life revealing. . . . And you have to love a social scientist so respectful of Miss Manners."—Clifford Orwin, Toronto Globe and Mail "Clark offers a thought-provoking and quite interesting etiquette of sympathy according to which we ought to act in order to preserve the sympathy credits we can call on in time of need."—Virginia Quarterly Review

Misery and Company: Sympathy in Everyday Life

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Clark, Candace

Mental Health

University of Chicago Press

In a kind of social tour of sympathy, Candace Clark reveals that the emotional experience we call sympathy has a history, logic, and life of its own. Although sympathy may seem to be a natural, reflexive reaction, people are not born knowing when, for whom, and in what circumstances sympathy is appropriate. Rather, they learn elaborate, highly specific rules—different rules for men than for women—that guide when to feel or display sympathy, when to claim it, and how to accept it. Using extensive interviews, cultural artifacts, and "intensive eavesdropping" in public places, such as hospitals and funeral parlors, as well as analyzing charity appeals, blues lyrics, greeting cards, novels, and media reports, Clark shows that we learn culturally prescribed rules that govern our expression of sympathy. "Clark's . . . research methods [are] inventive and her glimpses of U.S. life revealing. . . . And you have to love a social scientist so respectful of Miss Manners."—Clifford Orwin, Toronto Globe and Mail "Clark offers a thought-provoking and quite interesting etiquette of sympathy according to which we ought to act in order to preserve the sympathy credits we can call on in time of need."—Virginia Quarterly Review

These 38 articles teach students sociology from a social interactionist point of view. Included are both classic documents and recent sociological debates and issues.

Social Interaction: Readings in Sociology

Politics & Social Sciences

Robboy, Howard

Sociology

Worth Publishers

Social Interaction: Readings in Sociology

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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The Readers' Advisory Guide to Mystery (ALA Readers' Advisory Series)

Charles, John

Hamilton-Selway, Joanne

Morrison, Joanna

Reference

ALA Editions

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Misery and Company: Sympathy in Everyday Life

Misery and Company: Sympathy in Everyday Life

Social Interaction: Readings in Sociology

Social Interaction: Readings in Sociology

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Mystery (ALA Readers' Advisory Series)