Summary Of The Man Managed Heart By Arlie Hochschild

Arlie Hochschild focuses on two types of models that helped develop her theories of emotions. The organic model, which comes from Darwin, Fraud, and James, implies that the emotions of individuals are embedded within their biological or psychological makeup. Darwin argues that that emotional action is the result of previous humankind experience. This means that many gestures of emotions are essentially universal. Fraud takes a different approach and connects emotions to instinct, such as eros and thanatos (love and death). When we are unable to satisfy our needs or wants in these areas, humans experience anxiety. The second model that influenced Hochschild is the interactional model, which stems from the work of numerous theorists, focuses more on the idea that social processes shape the emotional experiences that humans have. It was agreed that all humans are active beings and participants in the productions of social life. This model expresses the idea that emotions are tied
Goffman overlooked the idea that individuals have inner feelings that are managed just like outer ones. Therefor Goffmans idea of self makes it hard to understand and determine how inner emotions are shaped.
In Hochschilds “The Managed Heart” she focuses her attention on the effect that gender has on emotional management. Hochschild states that emotion work is more important to women and is important in different ways for women. She states that women rely on emotions and offer these feeling to men in exchange for more material resources. This is due in part to the fact that women lack other resources that men may have. Another reason emotion work is different for men and women is that each gender is required to do different types of emotional work. Women are more likely to hide anger in order to be nice. Men are more likely to hide vulnerability or