Misery and company : sympathy in everyday life / Candace Clark.

Author/creator Clark, Candace
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Descriptionxii, 316 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The social character of sympathy -- Sympathy giving : forms and process -- Framing events as bad luck : sympathy entrepreneurs and the grounds for sympathy -- The socioemotional economy, social value, and sympathy margin -- Sympathy biography and the rules of sympathy etiquette -- Interpreting deviance : the sympathetic response -- Sympathy, microhierarchy, and micropolitics.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-297) and indexes.
LCCN 96034946
ISBN0226107566
ISBN0226107574 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks BJ1475 .C53 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold