"Rent a mom" and other services: markets, meanings and emotions. (13th September 2005)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hochschild, Arlie Russell
• Is Part Of: International journal of work organisation and emotion. Volume 1:Number 1(2005)
• Page Start: 74
• Page End: 86
• Publication Date: 2005-09-13
• Subjects: commodification -- feeling rules -- market -- commercialisation -- emotional life -- modernisation -- cultural variation -- capitalist encroachment -- sociology of emotions -- working parents -- service providers; Emotions -- Sociological aspects -- Periodicals; Organizational sociology -- Periodicals; Organizational behavior -- Periodicals; Work -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals; 302.35
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-8938

Abstract

In this essay, the author explores the impact of commercialisation on emotional life. She considers three approaches to the topic – theories of modernisation, of cultural variation and of capitalist encroachment. Drawing elements from each, she outlines what amounts to a preface to a sociology of emotions approach to commercialisation.