Sociologist Émile Durkheim’s term for the way people become excited when they find themselves among their “tribe,” whether social, biological, or political. Hochschild uses it to describe Tea Partiers’ mob-like enthusiasm at Donald Trump’s rally.
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While economic self-interest is never entirely absent, what I discovered was the profound importance of emotional self-interest—a giddy release from the feeling of being a stranger in one’s own land.
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Chapter 15 – Strangers No Longer: The Power of Promise
Renowned French sociologist Émile Durkheim used the term “ collective effervescence ” to describe the “emotional excitation felt by those who join with others they take...
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