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" Shame and Obedience: "
Canter, Alivia Lauren
Curington, Celeste;Bowen, Sarah;Schwalbe, Michael
Document Type
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Latin Dissertation
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Language of Document
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English
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Record Number
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1114270
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TLpq2405617876
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Main Entry
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Canter, Alivia Lauren
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Curington, Celeste
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Title & Author
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Shame and Obedience:\ Canter, Alivia LaurenCurington, Celeste;Bowen, Sarah;Schwalbe, Michael
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College
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North Carolina State University
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Date
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2020
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student score
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2020
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Degree
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M.Sc.
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Page No
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40
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Abstract
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Understanding emotion is essential to examining social inequality. Emotions help people make sense of the social world and can be internally managed for the purpose of remaining unthreatening to the social order. For women, this often means subconsciously evaluating and adjusting emotion through a patriarchal lens. Scholars have noted that religion, in particular, is influential largely due to its emotional appeals and defining of moral behavior. Religious narratives also offer linkages between morality, emotion, and gender identity. The current study investigates how a Christian denomination shapes members’ emotional and social behavior. Using a grounded theory approach, I draw on in-depth interviews and sermon transcripts from a southeastern church to demonstrate how a religious narrative guides emotion-management in ways maintaining gender inequality. By embracing a learned practice of appropriately feeling shame, my interviewees navigate life as Christian women without challenging gender inequality. These findings highlight shame’s status as a “master” emotion that moderates one’s social behavior in relation to the collective. Importantly, this study demonstrates how emotion-management maintains oppressive social dynamics while simultaneously helping people cope with the inequalities they encounter.
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Subject
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Emotion
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Social inequality
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Social order
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Sociology
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Women
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Added Entry
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Bowen, Sarah
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Schwalbe, Michael
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