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The Logic of Emotion in Mass Disturbances: Based on an Analysis of the Case of DH Event and Its Extensions
Ist Teil von
She hui, 2014-01, Vol.34 (1), p.75-103
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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Sociological Abstracts
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The emotional perspective is an important one to understand mass disturbances in present China. Taking the DH Event as a principal case and with this case extended to other mass disturbances, the current paper analyzes and extracts the general logic of emotion in current Chinese mass disturbances. The pervading discontent and the dissatisfaction with the moral construction among the masses caused by system-related obstacles in opinion expression have made emotion the most important mechanism determining the occurrence, development and evolution of mass disturbances. Emotion, as the basic logic supportive of mass disturbances, performs mainly in two ways, emotion release and emotion management, as the two sides of one coin, a mode characteristic of the emotional expression among the general public. The former aims at the peripheral and marginal part of power while the latter determines the process of mass disturbances as a routine factor. What should be emphasized especially is the performance of emotion as a