Emotion regime

The distinction between the two terms therefore lies in emphasis rather than categorical separation. Emotional communities describe the shared repertoires and interpretive practices of particular groups. Emotion regimes refer to structured normative orders, sometimes broad, sometimes local, that cultivate, reward, and regulate specific forms of feeling. While community emphasises diversity within a social landscape, regime highlights the degree of prescription and the ways in which expectations of feeling shape action and constrain emotional possibility .{{sfn|Frevert|2024|pp=1–3}} Both concepts illuminate how people learn to feel within normative settings; they simply bring different facets of this process into focus.

The distinction between the two terms therefore lies in emphasis rather than categorical separation. Emotional communities describe the shared repertoires and interpretive practices of particular groups. Emotion regimes refer to structured normative orders, sometimes broad, sometimes local, that cultivate, reward, and regulate specific forms of feeling. While community emphasises diversity within a social landscape, regime highlights the degree of prescription and the ways in which expectations of feeling shape action and constrain emotional possibility .{{sfn|Frevert|2024|pp=1–3}} Both concepts illuminate how people learn to feel within normative settings; they simply bring different facets of this process into focus.

=== Emotion Regimes and Feeling Rules / Emotion Work ===

=== Emotion regimes and feeling rules / emotion work ===

Arlie Hochschild's concepts of feeling rules and [[emotion work]] describe the socially patterned expectations that guide which feelings individuals should experience or display in particular situations. Feeling rules constitute "the side of ideology that deals with emotion and feeling," indicating what one "ought to" or has the "right to" feel in a given context .{{sfn|Hochschild|1979|pp=551–552}} Individuals perform emotion work when they attempt to shape their affect in accordance with these expectations .{{sfn|Hochschild|1979|p=551}} Such expectations operate at many levels across families, workplaces, professions, and social classes where they differ according to gender, task, and role .{{sfn|Hochschild|1979|pp=571–572}}

Arlie Hochschild's concepts of feeling rules and [[emotion work]] describe the socially patterned expectations that guide which feelings individuals should experience or display in particular situations. Feeling rules constitute "the side of ideology that deals with emotion and feeling," indicating what one "ought to" or has the "right to" feel in a given context .{{sfn|Hochschild|1979|pp=551–552}} Individuals perform emotion work when they attempt to shape their affect in accordance with these expectations .{{sfn|Hochschild|1979|p=551}} Such expectations operate at many levels across families, workplaces, professions, and social classes where they differ according to gender, task, and role .{{sfn|Hochschild|1979|pp=571–572}}