Social policies and emotions: a look from the global south

Abstract

The central objective of this book is to make evident the connections between social policies and the politics of sensibilities. Using an analytical perspective that articulates and potentiates the sociology of bodies/emotions with the sociology of social policies, we try to show how social policiesbuild sociabilities, experiences and sensibilities, thereby producing processes of conflict avoidance and consecration of the given. It is intended to facilitate the observation of the processes by which the state manages to neutralize the effects of inequality, producing a containment of the subjects through compensatory consumption.