Shame : a brief history / Peter N. Stearns.

By:

Stearns, Peter N [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: History of emotionsPublisher: Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2017]Copyright date: �2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780252050008
0252050002

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: ShameDDC classification:

152.4/409 23

LOC classification:

BF575.S45

NLM classification:

2018 A-846
BF 575.S45

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Contents:

Exploring Shame: The Interdisciplinary Context -- Shame and Shaming in Premodern Societies -- The Impact of Modernity: Some Possibilities -- Reconsidering Shame in Western Society: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- The Revival of Shame: Contemporary History.

Summary: Shame varies as an individual experience and its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame's power to complicate individual, international, cultural, and political relationships. Peter N. Stearns draws on his long career as a historian of emotions to provide the foundational text on shame 's history and how this history contributes to contemporary issues around the emotion. Summarizing current research, Stearns unpacks the major debates that surround this complex emotion. He also surveys the changing role of shame in the United States from the nineteenth century to today, including shame 's revival as a force in the 1960s and its place in today 's social media. Looking ahead, Stearns maps the abundant opportunities for future historical research and historically informed interdisciplinary scholarship. Written for interested readers and scholars alike, Shame combines significant new research with a wider synthesis.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-158) and index.

Shame varies as an individual experience and its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame's power to complicate individual, international, cultural, and political relationships. Peter N. Stearns draws on his long career as a historian of emotions to provide the foundational text on shame 's history and how this history contributes to contemporary issues around the emotion. Summarizing current research, Stearns unpacks the major debates that surround this complex emotion. He also surveys the changing role of shame in the United States from the nineteenth century to today, including shame 's revival as a force in the 1960s and its place in today 's social media. Looking ahead, Stearns maps the abundant opportunities for future historical research and historically informed interdisciplinary scholarship. Written for interested readers and scholars alike, Shame combines significant new research with a wider synthesis.

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