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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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A Sociological Perspective on Emotions in the Judiciary
- 2016
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Ingår i: Emotion Review. - : SAGE Publications. - 1754-0739 .- 1754-0747. ; 8:1, s. 32-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introducing a sociological perspective on judicial emotions, we argue that previous studies underemphasize structural and interactional dimensions. Through key concepts in the sociology of emotions we relate professional court actors’ emotion management to the emotional regime of the judiciary. Examples from the Swedish judiciary illustrate three main arguments: (a) The idea of rational justice as nonemotional must be investigated as a joint accomplishment including collective emotion management; (b) Judicial objectivity requires situated emotion management and empathy, orientated by emotions of pride/shame; (c) The structural dimensions of power/status mitigate feeling and display rules. The situated power of the judge is upheld by ritual deference from other court professionals. Concluding, we suggest topics to develop structural and interactional perspectives on judicial emotion
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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-
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Access
- 2019
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Ingår i: SAGE Research Methods Foundations. - London : Sage Publications. - 9781473965003
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Access is the process of establishing rapport with a field containing different phases without an articulated end. Qualitative research often involves studying people in their social setting, documenting action and meaning making in relation to the field in which it occurs through ethnographic methods such as observations, shadowing and interviews. Gaining permission to a site or a specific group of people is essential to collect research data. Permission typically includes gaining approval from an ethics review board, and from organizations or collectives that make up the research site but, most importantly, from the individuals whose actions and meaning making the researcher wants to understand. Gaining and maintaining access builds on feelings of trust and interest and can therefore not be secured once and for all; it remains a continuous process throughout the data collection phase of a research project. The issues and obstacles encountered when gaining access demand practical solutions in the moment but can also give important analytical insights about the field itself. This article first discusses formal access and the role of gatekeepers, and then develops the importance of trust and interest to secure access. Access is thereafter problematized in relation to proximity to the field and in relation to the position of the researcher vis-à-vis the informants. Finally, the emotion management involved in gaining and maintaining access is elaborated.
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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-
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Arlie Russell Hochschild
- 2013. - 1
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Ingår i: Relationell socialpsykologi. - Stockholm : Liber. - 9789147098316 ; , s. 166-195
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-
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Bengt Ohlsson : Rollkonflikt och autenticitet
- 2015
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Ingår i: Sociologi genom litteratur. - Lund : Arkiv förlag & tidskrift. - 9789179242701 ; , s. 275-284
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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-
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Different Roads to Empathy : Stage Actors and Judges as Polar Cases
- 2019
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Ingår i: Emotions and Society. - : Bristol University Press. - 2631-6897 .- 2631-6900. ; 1:2, s. 163-180
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using judges and stage actors as instructive polar types this article elucidates factors that influence the inclination to empathise. Both come in close contact with dramatic life stories on an everyday basis but approach empathy from contrasting vantage points: emotional distance versus emotional engagement. Similarities between these polar types can thus disentangle some of the factors that influence professional empathic perspective taking in more general terms. It is argued that reality or fiction in itself does not promote empathy, but the presence of a complete narrative structure which allows for personal recognition of shared attributes or experiences. In both professions the decoupling of emotions from private connotations, individual responsibility for interpretations on stage or in verdicts and defamiliarisation of private experiences can promote empathic perspective taking whereas it is prevented by one-sided perspective taking; for example, by judicial encoding (judges) or getting stuck in private experiences (stage actors). Organisational obstacles to empathy include hierarchal work structures or a ‘teflon culture’.
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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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(Dis)passionate law stories : the emotional processes of encoding narratives in court
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of law and society. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0263-323X .- 1467-6478. ; 49:2, s. 245-262
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this conceptual article, we propose that legal professional decision makers’ transformation of narratives in court (encoding) influences their emotional attunement to the stories at hand. First, we argue that the process of encoding is linked to the strict demand for dispassion in legal settings. Second, we introduce three techniques that regulate the emotional processes at play during the encoding of law narratives: demarcation, fragmentation, and proximation. Demarcation and fragmentation produce emotional distance from narratives and their associated emotions, while proximation refers to the deliberate calibration of emotional attunement to law stories to enable legal decision making. Demarcation and fragmentation are sustained by background emotions of ease and interest when stories align with legal requirements, versus disinterest and irritation when ‘too many’ details are introduced. Proximation is regulated through the epistemic emotions of doubt and certainty. By scrutinizing the subtle emotions involved in legal encoding, we problematize the ideal of judicial dispassion.
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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-
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Emotional insights in the field
- 2015
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Ingår i: Methods of exploring emotions. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 9781138798694 - 9781317630463 ; , s. 125-133
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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-
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Emotional Participation : the use of the observer’s emotions as a methodological tool when studying professional stage actors rehearsing a role for the stage
- 2009
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Ingår i: Nordic Theatre Studies. - Stockholm : Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars. - 0904-6380 .- 2002-3898. ; 21, s. 29-38
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This contribution aims to identify and clarify emotional aspects of conducting observation studies. The researcher, in most cases, does not want to interfere with or influence the phenomenon under observation, but uses her/himself as a tool to collect material. Even if the observer does not participate verbally, s/he can be emotionally participative using her/his emotions as a methodological tool, generating reflections and insights relative to the situations and persons that are the object of observation. Earlier contributions from social anthropology and psychotherapy are discussed and compared to examples from observations on the rehearsals of two theatre productions. One crucial point is that the researcher’s emotions can be more or less congruent with the situation at hand; a match as well as a mis-match can be used as information in the research process. Furthermore, the emotional expressions displayed by professional actors can be more or less emotionally anchored within them. Do the observer’s feelings correlate with the research subjects’ felt emotions or their portrayed emotions? Reflections on these issues can be used in interviews with research subjects to attain a more nuanced and tangible interpretation of the studied phenomenon.
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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-
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Facilitating emotion management : organisational and individual strategies in the theatre
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. - Olney Bucks : InderScience Publishers. - 1740-8938 .- 1740-8946. ; 6:2, s. 193-208
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Detailed analysis of two theatre productions shows that the conceptof bounded emotionality can be used to tease out aspects of emotionmanagement that would not otherwise have been detectable. Non-instrumentalways to manage emotions – to facilitate emotion work – are used in situationswhere the goal is to produce quality performances, not to promote well-beingas such. The rehearsal period consists of phases that require different emotionmanagement strategies. In an initial phase, a secure working climate isestablished to deal with feelings of insecurity and shame. A creative phaseallows for role-related emotions, and a crisis phase calls for a balance betweenfrontstage and backstage regions. In a final phase, the ensemble closes its ranksand prepares to meet the audience. The director is expected to ‘manipulate withfinesse’, transforming his/her leadership role during the rehearsal process fromthat of boss to coach. Private, role-related and situation-related emotions aredifferentiated, showing how emotions are seized, channelled and divided inorder to direct emotional energy in effective ways. Finally, we discussimplications for organisations outside the theatrical domain.
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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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Humour in the Swedish Court: managing emotions, status and power
- 2018
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Ingår i: Judges, Judging and Humour. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319767376 - 9783319767383 ; , s. 179-209
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter analyses humour from an emotion sociological perspective, linking humour to power, status, and group solidarity. It draws from about 300 observed trials and interviews with 43 judges and 41 prosecutors from four Swedish district courts. Humour is sometimes skilfully used as a strategy to ease tension, relieve boredom or to reprimand. It is initiated/allowed by the judge, but high-status lawyers or prosecutors may take the initiative. Judges may use humour to uphold an effective and smooth procedure, attenuating their own power. It is generally unacceptable to laugh at the expense of lay- (low-power) people present in court. Inter-professional humour takes place in intermissions during the hearings, while trials running over several days may include the defendants in the semi-backstage inter-professional joking. Most in-court humorous incidents are unintended, where laughter is suppressed or released depending on the judge. Humour has different functions and expressions frontstage (in court) and backstage (office, lunch room). Observation of both arenas reveal its shame-management function in inter-professional relations. While the judges’ backstage area teems with jokes about embarrassing procedural mistakes, prosecutors’ backstage humour more often deals with the foulness and tragedy of criminals and crimes.
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