Emotions and Valuations
Résumé
The emotional reactions aroused by the fire that partly destroyed Notre-Dame
de Paris in April 2019 can be analyzed as “valuations” in the light of the
pragmatic sociology of values, since they provide empirically grounded
material allowing for the description and modeling of the actual
implementations and effects of valuations. After a quick summary of the
recent history of the pragmatic turn in sociology as related to the sociology of
valuation, and a short reflection on the relationship between emotions and
values, the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris is used as a case study in the light of
“axiological sociology”, a model built on value judgments observed in various
contexts, including the display of emotions. This article intends to demonstrate
both empirically and theoretically how important it is for the social sciences to
consider values as an autonomous issue, deserving to be treated as
“axiological facts”, as any other kind of social fact.
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