Emotional Regimes vs. Emotional Communities The history of emotions is a recently identified field that analyzes the various emotions of individuals and societies across diverse cultures and time periods. A few theories have been established in this field since 1985, two of them being emotional regimes and emotional communities. In 2001, William Reddy purposed the theory of emotional regimes and in 2002 Barbara Rosenwein purposed the theory of emotional communities. This paper will examine the difference in these two theories; emotional regimes define what is or is not acceptable in a society from the political aspect, while emotional communities define the relationships among individuals of a distinct group as can be proven with the analysis …show more content…
Thus, the political regime for this example stated that the Caucasian citizens of Canada were in danger of the Native Americans’ way of life and in order to solve this problem they established residential schools. While this solution satisfied the emotional regime, it altered the emotional community of Aboriginal families. The emotional community changed from a coherent unit in which the grandparents were teachers, aunts and uncles were discipliners and the parents simply provided the children with an abundance of love, to a broken unit lacking in structure, familiarity and love. Another example of an emotional regime and emotional community is during the Second World War in the letter correspondence between parents and their children. The emotional regimes of these letters was shown in advice manuals, informing parents-particularly mothers-how to properly write a letter: “Wartime letter-writing manuals such as Charles Warrell’s ninepenny booklet “I’ll Teach you Better Letter Writing, Give Life to Your Letters-the Warrell Way’ encouraged women letter-writers to keep their readers ‘in the home circle’ through the accumulation of domestic detail...Mother 's’ letters produce parallel lives for those away from home, a continuous documentation of their real selves, as it …show more content…
Emotional regimes and emotional communities are a part of all societies both in the past and the present and as such, the analysis of both is crucial in understanding the culture and motives of the societies. Moreover, the comparison of the theories, noting the differences, can further enhance one’s understanding of societies, thus making these theories a valuable tool for
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The creation of the Residential Schools is now looked upon to be a regretful part of Canada’s past. The objective: to assimilate and to isolate First Nations and Aboriginal children so that they could be educated and integrated into Canadian society. However, under the image of morality, present day society views this assimilation as a deliberate form of cultural genocide. From the first school built in 1830 to the last one closed in 1996, Residential Schools were mandatory for First Nations or Aboriginal children and it was illegal for such children to attend any other educational institution. If there was any disobedience on the part of the parents, there would be monetary fines or in the worst case scenario, trouble with Indian Affairs.
Due to my understanding of the three theoretical concepts so far – I have solid believes of emotions, therefore I believe the idea of Dualism rather than Monism and Functionalism. There is evidence that Functionalism did not fit into a society quite well. Referred to Jeffery Alexander, associated groups of Americans and Europeans who previously have taken Functionalism towards left wing, there were some criticisms form feminists due to rejections on one gender group (Johnson, 1993, pp.
diagnostic criteria for PTSD (Corrado and Cohen 2003). These high rates of PTSD, directly attributed to the trauma experienced within residential schools, provide strong evidence for a link between PTSD and the Canadian residential school system. The prevalence of PTSD has a direct impact on the absence of effective parenting skills in the Aboriginal community, as it often influences behaviors such as alcohol abuse and spousal abuse, which in turn set negative precedents for children growing up.
The culture of a community invariably determines the social structures and the formation of a society. Developed over time, culture is the collection of beliefs and values that a group of people maintain together. Culture is never constant, and thought to be continually renewed over years as new ideas and concepts become mainstream. It ranges from how people live, day to day topics for conversations, religion, and even entertainment. It is analogous to guidelines, or the rulebook of the said group of people. Society, on the other hand, emanates from the social structure of the community. It is the very institutions to which create a regulated and acceptable form of interaction between peoples. Indeed, culture and society are so perversely intertwined in a
In the story Reclaiming Culture and the Land: Motherhood and the Policies of Sustaining Community, the author describes just some of the challenges of working while being a Native American living on and off within a normal Caucasian society. One of the issues brought up in the story is that the author does a poor job in raising her children while they are at the most important stages in their childhood. In this Indian community, everyone knows each other and it is a close, tight knit community throughout. One of the principals which backs this up is that one or more mothers in the community take care of all of the children of the community, kind of like a daycare center. The author is indeed one of these caretaker mothers that would spend a lot of time with all the children. As a result, outsiders look at her and believe that she is doing a poor job at what she considers to be a fine parenting job. And other hardship that she has is trying to understand her place in society because she is a woman. In the story, she describes how things are constantly being taken from her and assumed by the male sex. These and more are some of the problems that she has to deal with in the story.
When faced with a life altering situation although Molly’s characteristics and personality aid her in courageously defying them, the effects of facing this traumatic event will lead to long term psychological repercussions. When severe harm is inflicted on a person’s psyche, it is viewed as an emotional trauma (Levers, 2012). The emotional harm inflicted on Molly’s psyche originates from different dimensions; like her upbringing, her trauma is multidimensional too. As a child of the Indigenous community, whose ancestors and elders were killed violently in inter-group conflicts, and whose children were forcefully removed from families, Molly is would experience intergenerational trauma (Atkinson, 2002). Intergenerational trauma is trauma passed down from one generation to another; as a close knitted community group, the grief experienced by family members of losing their loved ones, would have been transferred across generations (Atkinson,
Residential schools were first established in the 1880's to solve Canada's “Indian Problem”. Settlers in Canada thought of the First Nations people as savages, and the goal of the residential schools was to civilize them and integrate them in to white Canadian society. The first operators of residential schools thought of their forced integration as a benefit to native peoples. One of the overseers of residential schools wrote to the Sisters in charge of St. Joseph's Mission at Williams Lake that “It now remains for ...
In conclusion, events surrounding the internment of Japanese Americans affected members of families in different ways. While papa was financially stable, loving and an authoritative person before the internment, the relocation sees him transformed into a financially unstable, resentful, angry, and a less authoritative and commanding person. Understanding papa’s changes give insights as to how the internment affected the Japanese American families because fathers usually influence their family more than any other person and anything that affects them also affects the whole family as it has been seen in the Wakatsuki family’s case.
(6) Rhetoric. 1378a20. "The emotions are all those feelings that so change men as to affect their judgements, and that are also attended by pain or pleasure. Such are anger, pity, fear and the like with their opposites."
This essay concerns emotions and controversial arguments based on whether emotions are universal or a learned phenomenon. Most of the research in to cross cultural Psychology surround their attention on the biological aspect of emotions as being the primary source of the occurrence of emotions and has been the subject of numerous studies. However, culture is also known to affect and provoke emotional experiences. This essay will discuss the position of emotions from a Universalist view and from a cultural view. The following approach will focus on the universality of emotions.
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