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Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve
Institute of Sociology
Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion"
Assistant Professor
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
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Room
JK 33/125
14195
Berlin
Tel.:
+49 30 838 57695
Fax:
+49 30 838 52887
E-Mail: christian.von.scheve@fu-berlin.de
Homepage:
Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion"
Cognitive and Affective Sociology Network
Office Hours:
Tuesdays, 15.00-16.00
During semester breaks only by appointment via email
Vita
2011 - Appointed DIW Research Professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, DIW)
2008 - Professor (Juniorprofessor) of Sociology / Sociology of Emotions, Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" and Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
2007 - 2008 Assistant Professor, Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria
2004 - 2005 Fellow of the Research Group “Emotions as Bio-Cultural Processes”, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University
2003 - 2007 Research Assistant at Deutscher Bundestag (German parliament)
2007 Doctorate in Economics and Social Sciences (Dr. rer. pol.), University of Hamburg
2002 Diploma in Sociology, University of Hamburg
Studied Sociology, Psychology, Economics, and Political Science at University of Hamburg
Research statement
I investigate the influence of culture and society on emotion and cognition. In particular, I am interested in how feeling and thinking are calibrated to socio-cultural environments and what the underlying mechanisms are. This includes the impact of stratification and inequality as well as of symbolic and normative orders. Generally, I aim at understanding large-scale patterns of emotional responding, both as habitual affective dispositions and short-lived collective emotions. I am also interested in emotions that arise in relation to groups and communities, such as feelings of belonging. Second, I study the role of emotion and cognition in the emergence and reproduction of social order, mainly by looking at their influence on social action and interaction. Third, I am interested in the ways emotions are represented and their meaning is negotiated in discourse and practices, for instance in music, mass media, and certain areas of the economy. My research draws on a variety of methods, such as analyzing panel data, conducting in-depth interviews and discourse analysis, as well employing experimental designs. I also collaborate with researchers from psychology and social neuroscience, primarily to uncover the embodied dimension of the social calibration of emotion.
Major fields
- Emotions, social norms, cooperation, social cognition, inequality, structure and agency
- Sociological theory, cognitive sociology, sociology of culture, economic sociology
- Experimental methods, in particular unobtrusive and nonreactive methods
Publications
in press / forthcoming
von Scheve, C. & Salmela, M. (forthcoming). Collective Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press.
von Scheve, C. (forthcoming). Emotion and Social Structures. The Affective Foundations of Social Order. New York: Routledge.
von Scheve, C. (in press). Jonathan H. Turner – Human Emotions. A Sociological Theory. In Schützeichel, R., Senge, K. (Eds.), Hauptwerke der Emotionssoziologie. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
von Scheve, C. (in press). Theodore D. Kemper – A Social Interactional Theory of Emotions. In Schützeichel, R., Senge, K. (Eds.), Hauptwerke der Emotionssoziologie. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
von Scheve, C. (in press). Sighard Neckel – Status und Scham. Zur symbolischen Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheit. In Schützeichel, R., Senge, K. (Eds.), Hauptwerke der Emotionssoziologie. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
von Scheve, C. (in press). Sind die „Schreckensmänner“ mit Gefühl weniger furchteinflößend? Emotionen und sozialwissenschaftliche Akteurmodelle. In Schaal, G.S., Heidenreich, F. (Eds.), Politische Theorie und Emotionen. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Fücker, S., von Scheve, C. (forthcoming). Emotionen und Gewalt. [Emotions and violence.] In Gudehus, C., Christ, M., Welzer, H. (Eds.), Gewalt. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. [Violence. An Interdisciplinary Handbook.] Stuttgart: Metzler.
2012
von Scheve, C. (2012). The social calibration of emotion expression: An affective basis of micro-social order. Sociological Theory, 30(1), 1-14.
von Scheve, C. (2012). Collective emotions in rituals: Elicitation, transmission, and a “Matthew-Effect”. In Michaels, A., Wulf, C. (Eds.), Emotions in Rituals and Performance (pp. 55-77). London: Routledge.
von Scheve, C. (2012). Die sozialen Grundlagen von Einschätzungen und Emotionen: Strukturen und Prozesse. In Schnabel, A., Schützeichel, R. (Eds.), Emotionen, Sozialstruktur und Moderne. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
Lange, M., von Scheve, C. (2012). Wie fühlen sich Zahlungsversprechen an? Impressionen von den digitalen Emotionsratgebern der Finanzbranche. In J. Metelmann & T. Beyes (Eds.), Die Macht der Gefühle. Emotionen in Management, Organisation und Kultur. Berlin: Berlin University Press.
Schellennberg, E.G., & von Scheve, C. (2012, in press). Emotional cues in American popular music: Five decades of the Top 40. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
von Lüde, R., von Scheve, C. (2012, in press). Rationalitätsfiktionen des Anlageverhaltens auf Finanzmärkten. In K. Krämer, S. Nessel (Hg.), Entfesselte Finanzmärkte. Soziologische Analysen des modernen Kapitalismus. Frankfurt/Main: Campus.
Zink, V., Ismer, S., von Scheve, C. (2012, in press). Zwischen Angst und Hoffnung: Die emotionale Konnotation des Sprechens über die Finanzkrise 2008/2009. In K. Lämmler, A. Peltzer, A. Wagenknecht (Eds.), Krise, Cash und Kommunikation. Konstanz: UVK.
2011
von Scheve, C. (2011). Sociology of Neuroscience or Neurosociology? In Pickersgill, M., van Keulen, I. (Eds.), Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences. Advances in Medical Sociology, Vol. 13. Bingley: Emerald.
von Scheve, C. (2011). Die soziale Konstitution und Funktion von Emotion: Akteur, Gruppe, normative Ordnung. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 14(2), 207-222, DOI: 10.1007/s11618-011-0206-3
2010
von Scheve, C. (2010). Die emotionale Struktur sozialer Interaktion: Emotionsexpression und soziale Ordnungsbildung [The emotional structure of social interaction: Emotion expression and the emergence of social order]. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 39(5), 346-362.
Neckel, S., Mijic, A., von Scheve, C., Titton, M. (2010)(Eds.). Sternstunden der Soziologie. Wegweisende Theoriemodelle des soziologischen Denkens. [Milestones of Sociology: Key theoretical models in sociological thought]. Frankfurt/Main: Campus. [Flyer]
Döveling, K., von Scheve, C., Konijn, E. (2010)(Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Emotions and Mass Media. London/New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall. [Publisher Info / Contents]
von Scheve, C. (2010). Emotionen, Normkonformität und das Problem sozialer Ordnung [Emotions, norm compliance and social order]. In M. Iorio & R. Reisenzein (Eds.), Regel, Norm, Gesetz: Eine interdisziplinäre Bestandsaufnahme [Rules, norms, and laws. An interdisciplinary review]. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 285-308.
Döveling, K., von Scheve, C., Konijn, E. (2010). Emotions and mass media: An interdisciplinary
approach. In Döveling, K., von Scheve, C., Konijn, E. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Emotions and Mass Media. London/New York: Routledge, 1-13.
2009
von Scheve, C. (2009). Emotionen und soziale Strukturen. Die affektiven Grundlagen sozialer Ordnung. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus. [Review: European Journal of Sociology] [Flyer]
Hudlicka, E., Payr, S., Ventura, R., Becker-Asano, C., Fischer, K., Leite, I., Paiva, A. & von Scheve, C. (2009). Social interaction with robots and agents: Where do we stand, where do we go? In Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Proceedings of ACII’09. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press, 698-703.
2008
Engelen, E.-M., Markowitsch, H. J., von Scheve, C., Röttger-Rössler, B., Stephan, A., Holodynski, M., & M. Vandekerckhove (2008). Emotions as bio-cultural processes. Disciplinary approaches and interdisciplinary outlook. In B. Röttger-Rössler & H. J. Markowitsch (Eds.), Emotions as bio-cultural processes. New York: Springer, 23-53.
von Scheve, C. (2008). Rezension von E. Endert, Über die emotionale Dimension sozialer Prozesse, Konstanz, UVK. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 33(2), 100-104.
Vandekerckhove, M., von Scheve, C., Ismer, S., Jung, S., & S. Kronast (2008)(Eds.). Regulating emotions: Culture, social necessity, and biological inheritance. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. [Review: Metapsychology] [Contents]
Vandekerckhove, M., von Scheve, C., Ismer, S., Jung, S., & S. Kronast (2008). Introduction. Regulating emotions: Culture, social necessity and biological inheritance. In M. Vandekerckhove, C. von Scheve, S. Ismer, S. Jung, & S. Kronast (Eds.), Regulating emotions: Culture, social necessity and biological inheritance (pp. 1-12). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
2006
von Scheve, C., Moldt, D., Fix, J., & von Luede, R. (2006). My agents love to conform: Norms and emotion in the micro-macro link. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 12(2/3), 81-100.
Vandekerckhove, M., von Scheve, C., & Markowitsch, H. J. (2006). Selbst, Gedächtnis und autonoetisches Bewusstsein [Self, memory, and autonoetic consciousness]. In H. Welzer & H. J. Markowitsch (Eds.), Warum Menschen sich erinnern können. Fortschritte der interdisziplinären Gedächtnisforschung(pp. 323-343). Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.
Moldt, D., Fix, J., von Luede, R., & von Scheve, C. (2006). Emotion als theorieleitende Kategorie in Soziologie und Informatik: Zur emotionsbasierten Modellierung von Strukturdynamiken in künstlichen und natürlichen Gesellschaften [Emotion-based modeling of structural dynamics in artificial and natural societies]. In R. Valk (Ed.). Ordnungsbildung und Erkenntnisprozesse (pp. 103-115). Hamburg: Hamburg University Press.
Fix, J., von Scheve, C., & Moldt, D. (2006). Emotion-based norm enforcement and maintenance in multi-agent systems. In P. Stone & G. Weiss (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (pp. 105-108), 8.-12. May 2006, Future-University Hakodate, Hakodate, Japan. New York: ACM-Press.
Fix, J., Moldt, D., & von Scheve, C. (2006). Modeling emotions in multi-agent systems based on Petri-Net modeling technique. In D. Reichardt, P. Levi & J.-J.C. Meyer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Emotion and Computing – Current Research and Future Impact (pp. 19-22). June 19, 2006, University of Bremen.
2005
von Scheve, C., & von Luede, R. (2005). Emotion and social structures: Towards an interdisciplinary approach. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 35(3), 303-328.
von Scheve, C., Moldt, D., Fix, J., & von Luede, R. (2005). My agents love to conform: Emotions, norms, and social control in natural and artificial societies. In G. Boella, L. van der Torre, & H. Verhagen (Eds.), Proceedingsof the AISB’05 Convention on Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots, and Agents, Symposium on Normative Multi-Agent Systems (pp. 73-84). 12.-15. April 2005, Hatfield, UK.
before 2005
von Scheve, C., & Moldt, D. (2004). Emotion: Theoretical investigations and Implications for Artificial Social Aggregates. In G. Lindeman, D. Moldt & P. Paolucci (Eds.), Regulated agent-based social systems (pp. 189-209). Berlin: Springer.
Moldt, D., & von Scheve, C. (2002). Attribution and adaptation: The case of social norms and emotion in human-agent interaction. In S. Marsh, J. F. Meech, L. Nowell, & Dautenhahn, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of The Philosophy and Design of Socially Adept Technologies (pp. 39-41), held at CHI'02, 20.4.02, Minneapolis, MN.
Moldt, D., & von Scheve, C. (2002). Emotions in hybrid social aggregates. In M. Herczeg, W. Prinz, & H. Oberquelle (Eds.), Mensch & Computer 2002. Vom interaktiven Werkzeug zu kooperativen Arbeits- und Lernwelten (pp. 343-352). Stuttgart: Teubner.
Moldt, D., & von Scheve, C. (2001). Emotions and multimodal interface-agents: A sociological view. In H. Oberquelle, R. Oppermann, & J. Krause (Eds.), Mensch & Computer 2001 (pp. 287-295). Stuttgart: Teubner.
Moldt, D., & von Scheve, C. (2001). Emotional actions for emotional agents. In C. G. Johnson (Ed.), Proceedings of the AISB'01 Symposium on Emotion, Cognition, and Affective Computing (pp. 121-128). York: SSAISB Press.
Moldt, D., & von Scheve, C. (2000). Soziologisch adäquate Modellierung emotionaler Agenten. In M. Mueller, M. (Ed.), Benutzermodellierung: Zwischen Kognition und Maschinellem Lernen (pp. 117-131). 8. GI-Workshop Adaptivität und Benutzermodellierung in interaktiven Softwaresystemen (ABIS'00). 28./29.9.2000. Osnabrück: Institut für Semantische Informationsverarbeitung.
von Scheve, C. (2000). Emotionale Agenten: Eine explorative Annäherung aus soziologischer Perspektive. Diploma thesis. University of Hamburg, Institute of Sociology.
