'Letting the uniform take it': Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance

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Organization Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI:10.1177/01708406231175297

M. Hartmann, Ninna Meier

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Abstract

Emotion regulation is essential to the maintenance of institutions. To date, institutional scholars have focused on how individual actors express or suppress emotions according to internalised institutional ‘feeling rules.’ Drawing on an empirical study of police officers, this article offers emotion absenting as a socially practised, embodied form of emotion regulation. Police officers’ shared emotion absenting enabled them to practise fear in unarticulated yet highly coordinated ways in alignment with their institutional role. The practice of emotion absenting is learned through socialisation into policework and the institution of law enforcement. Because police officers learn to regulate emotions together in subtle ways through the coordination of their bodies, emotion absenting can be functionally invisible in social interactions. This suggests that inappropriate emotions are not necessarily suppressed, i.e. removed from the situation. Rather, our study shows that such emotions may function as a resource among members of a group, especially when these emotions are practised in institutionally competent ways.

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“任其制服”：情感缺席及其在制度维护中的作用

情绪调节对制度的维持至关重要。到目前为止，制度学者们一直关注个体行动者如何根据内化的制度“感觉规则”表达或抑制情绪基于对警察的实证研究，本文将情绪缺席作为一种社会实践的、具体化的情绪调节形式。警察的共同情感缺席使他们能够以不明确但高度协调的方式练习恐惧，以配合他们的机构角色。情感缺席的实践是通过警察工作和执法机构的社会化来学习的。因为警察学会了通过身体的协调以微妙的方式共同调节情绪，所以在社交互动中，情绪缺席在功能上是看不见的。这表明，不适当的情绪不一定会被抑制，即从情境中消除。相反，我们的研究表明，这种情绪可能是一个群体成员的一种资源，尤其是当这些情绪以制度上有能力的方式练习时。

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Organization Studies MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

11.50

自引率

16.70%

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