Abstract
Emotion has long been recognized in sociology as crucially important, but most references to it are vague. In this article, shame, specifically, is nominated as the social emotion. Contributions by six sociologists, Georg Simmel, Charles Cooley, Norbert Elias, Helen Lynd, Erving Goffman, Richard Sennett, and a psychologist–psychoanalyst (Helen Lewis) are considered. Lewis's idea that shame arises from threats to the bond is shown to integrate the contributions of the sociologists.
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