Homework: The Emotion Work You Observed
For this homework, you will observe emotion work as you go about your daily life. What emotion work do you and others do in any given day? How does it vary by situation? Analyze two examples.
1. Begin your report with a paragraph that summarizes patterns in the emotion work you observed and introduces the two examples you will analyze.
2. After that introductory paragraph, spend the rest of the report analyzing two concrete examples. Be sure to describe the interactional contexts in which it occurs, including the feeling rules of that space. Utilize concepts from our Hochschild reading (e.g. feeling rules; the "pinch" between how you wanted to feel and how you actually felt; evocation and suppression; cognitive, bodily, and expressive techniques; deep acting and surface acting).
3. In the concluding paragraph, reflect on what you learned and make connections with other concepts, etc.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.