269 - Thematic Session. Social Psychology, Emotions, and Sexuality

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

In recent years, sociologists have increasingly been exploring the social dimensions of sexuality, including how individuals develop, navigate and present their sexual identities in social interaction, the meaning of sexual identities to individuals, the ways in which sexual minorities cope with stigma and discrimination (including emotion management), the emotional well-being of sexual minorities, the emergence of social movements organized around the concerns of sexual minorities as well as the ways in which individuals’ sexual identity intersects with their other social statuses (e.g., gender, age, race, and socioeconomic status). This session draws together reflections from leading social psychologists and emotions scholars on the various ways in which social psychological and emotions theory and research can and do inform the sociological study of sexualities in society and how in turn the sociological study of sexualities can and does inform social psychological and emotions theory and research.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Robin W. Simon, Wake Forest University

Presider

• Robin W. Simon, Wake Forest University

Panelists

• Shelley J. Correll, Stanford University

• Janice McCabe, Dartmouth College

• Lynn Smith-Lovin, Duke University

• Amy C. Wilkins, University of Colorado-Boulder