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en-wikipedia-org-2493		Sociology of emotions - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2556	315	51	As sociology emerged primarily as a reaction to the negative effects of modernity, many normative theories deal in some sense with emotion without forming a part of any specific subdiscipline: Karl Marx described capitalism as detrimental to personal 'species-being', Georg Simmel wrote of the deindividualizing tendencies of 'the metropolis', and Max Weber's work dealt with the rationalizing effect of modernity in general. Systematic observations of group interaction found that a substantial portion of group activity is devoted to the socio-emotional issues of expressing affect and dealing with tension.[1] Simultaneously, field studies of social attraction in groups revealed that feelings of individuals about each other collate into social networks,[2] a discovery that still is being explored in the field of social network analysis. Sociologist Randall Collins has stated that emotional energy is the main motivating force in social life, for love and hatred, investing, working or consuming, rendering cult or waging war.[10] Emotional energy ranges from the highest heights of enthusiasm, self-confidence and initiative to the deepest depths of apathy, depression and retreat. A social interactional theory of emotion.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2493.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2493.txt