Micro · Individual Stub 1983

Emotional Labor and the Managed Heart

감정노동 이론

A seminal sociology of work theory demonstrating how service employees are required to induce or suppress feelings to sustain the outward countenance that produces the proper state of mind in others.

Field Sociology · Management
Level of analysis Micro · Individual
Paradigm Symbolic Interactionism Critical Theory
Key figures 👤 Arlie Russell Hochschild (앨리 러셀 훅실드)
Year 1983

Key Claims

Arlie Hochschild conceptualized ‘Emotional Labor’ as the commercial management of feeling to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display. In post-industrial service economies, emotional management is co-opted for corporate profit, resulting in personal alienation and burnout.

Further Reading

  • Hochschild, A. R. (1983). The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. University of California Press.

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