Thirty Years of Research on Western Emotional Labor Theory:The Concept,Development and Trend
Based on the changes in American society and existing theories,A.R.Hochschild proposed"emotional labor".Focusing on this concept,this article first explores the background and connotation of the proposed definition.Secondly,it reviews the deployment of emotional labor in Western humanities and social science research in the past 30 years,and believes that these studies start from four major aspects:occupation,organization,gender,and ethnicity.While deepening the theoretical connotation and expanding the disciplinary margins,it analyzes the social problems of the West in recent times.However,reflecting on these studies,we can find that they seldom touch the core of capitalism,which is confined to the framework of the capitalist system,and it also opens up room for deep cultivation of Chinese academic circles.The meaning extracted from the concept of emotional labor and its follow-up research has important implications for our understanding of emotional production,contemporary labor alienation,and the construction of Chinese emotional sociology.
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