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2. Professional Emotions in Court

Author

Bergman Blix, Stina and Wettergren, Åsa

Subjects
Åsa Wettergren, assumption, court, courtroom, emotionality, emotions, emotion management, interview, judicial, justice, legal, objective, observation, perspective, professional, rational, reason, Stina Bergman Blix, sociological, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
Abstract

Professional Emotions in Court examines the paramount role of emotions in the legal professions and in the functioning of the democratic judicial system. Based on extensive interview and observation data in Sweden, the authors highlight the silenced background emotions and the tacitly habituated emotion management in the daily work at courts and prosecution offices. Following participants ‘backstage’ – whether at the office or at lunch – in order to observe preparations for and reflections on the performance in court itself, this book sheds light on the emotionality of courtroom interactions, such as professional collaboration, negotiations, and challenges, with the analysis of micro-interactions being situated in the broader structural regime of the legal system – the emotive-cognitive judicial frame – throughout. A demonstration of the false dichotomy between emotion and reason that lies behind the assumption of a judicial system that operates rationally and without emotion, Professional Emotions in Court reveals how this assumption shapes professionals’ perceptions and performance of their work, but hampers emotional reflexivity, and questions whether the judicial system might gain in legitimacy if the role of emotional processes were recognized and reflected upon.

Published
2018
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12. Professional Emotions in Court : A Sociological Perspective (Edition 1)

Author

Bergman Blix, Stina and Wettergren, Åsa

Subjects
Social Science, Social Science / Sociology
Abstract

Professional Emotions in Court examines the paramount role of emotions in the legal professions and in the functioning of the democratic judicial system. Based on extensive interview and observation data in Sweden, the authors highlight the silenced background emotions and the tacitly habituated emotion management in the daily work at courts and prosecution offices. Following participants ‘backstage’ – whether at the office or at lunch – in order to observe preparations for and reflections on the performance in court itself, this book sheds light on the emotionality of courtroom interactions, such as professional collaboration, negotiations, and challenges, with the analysis of micro-interactions being situated in the broader structural regime of the legal system – the emotive-cognitive judicial frame – throughout.A demonstration of the false dichotomy between emotion and reason that lies behind the assumption of a judicial system that operates rationally and without emotion, Professional Emotions in Court reveals how this assumption shapes professionals’ perceptions and performance of their work, but hampers emotional reflexivity, and questions whether the judicial system might gain in legitimacy if the role of emotional processes were recognized and reflected upon.

Published
2018

27. Organising outsourced workers in UK's new trade unionism - emotions, protest, and collective identity.

Author

Petrini, Ella and Wettergren, Åsa

Subjects
*GROUP identity, *IDENTITY (Psychology), *EMOTIONS, *DIRECT action, *HUMILIATION, *SOCIAL movements
Abstract

Drawing on the literature of social movements and emotions, this article analyses a case of the union-led movement against outsourcing in the UK. Our focus is on the emotional processes of collective identity formation and the movement culture of new grassroot unions, addressing the themes of movement culture, collective identity and political solidarity. Data consists of participant observations, interviews, and additional website and media material. The results show that the movement culture of the new grassroot unions is characterised by direct action and a collective identity based on a proud re-centring of BAME workers as subjects of labour struggles. Key emotional processes consist of sharing emotions of humiliation, anger, and exclusion, but also joy and feelings of solidarity. A crucial part of the movement's expansion is due to the construction of political solidarity and coalition-building. The results demonstrate the importance of heeding the crucial mobilising power of shared emotions in the analysis of new labour unions. The article contributes to labour movement research with an enhanced understanding of immaterial claims on dignity, respect and care, alongside the cognitivist focus on material work conditions and labour rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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43. Power, status, and emotion management in professional court work–the case of judges and prosecutors

Author

Wettergren, Åsa and Blix, Stina Bergman

Subjects
Sociology, FOS: Sociology
Abstract

We examine key characteristics of the work tasks of judges and prosecutors from a power and status perspective, discerning how emotions tie into this perspective. Analysis of court observations, interviews and shadowing of judges and prosecutors at four Swedish district courts and prosecution offices shows that power and status operate differently for the respective professions, resulting in distinct emotions and emotion management strategies. For analytical purposes we adopt a split power concept: power over and power to. The judges’ rather distinct power over requires a certain status in order to be comfortably executed, counteracting guilt and shame in relation to lay people. The prosecutors’ work is characterised by dependent power relations and the enactment of status both to the police and to judges for their power to perform their work. We suggest that this gives rise to different emotional profiles for the two professional roles. The article highlights the malleable and relativistic dimensions of power and status, and above all their inherent emotional qualities.

Published
2021
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48. Prosecutors’ Habituation of Emotion Management in Swedish Courts

Author

Wettergren, Åsa and Bergman Blix, Stina

Abstract

The article examines the professional emotion management underlying prosecutors’ work in court. Building on interviews and observations of forty-one prosecutors at five offices in Sweden, and drawing on sociological theories of emotion habituation, we analyze the emotion management necessary to perform frontstage (in court) professionalism as a prosecutor. We divide our analysis into three key dimensions of habituation: the feeling rules of confidence and mastering anxiety associated with an independent performance; the feeling rules of emotional distance and a balanced display associated with performing the objective party; and the playful and strategic improvisation of feeling rules associated with relaxed emotional presence. The routinization of feeling rules and the gradual backgrounding of related emotion management leads to habituation. Our findings enhance understanding of emotion management skills as part of tacit knowledge conveyed in the legal professions where emotion-talk and emotional reflexivity are little acknowledged. The article also contributes to the largely US-dominated previous research by adding a civil law perspective on prosecutorial emotion management.

Published
2022
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49. Governing by emotions in financial education.

Author

Pettersson, Jane and Wettergren, Åsa

Subjects
EMOTIONS, FINANCIAL literacy, PERSONAL finance, FINANCIAL security, BOREDOM
Abstract

In line with previous research, we consider financial education to be a form of governmentality in the age of financialization. Applying sociological theory of emotions, we investigate the role emotion play in the attempt to govern citizens in Swedish financial education. The material consists of interviews with organizers of the Swedish Like Your Personal Finance educational network and observations of one of its courses, Secure Your Financial Future. Analyzing how citizens are taught financial literacy, we highlight key emotions and feeling rules that promote the financial rationality permeating financial education. The results show that the course establishes a narrative of the world economic situation that responsibilizes citizens for their own financial security and welfare, employing feeling rules about: boredom, fear/anxiety, trust/distrust, and fun, which constitute the financially rational subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2021
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