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Porträtt på Lisa Flower. Foto: Emma Lord.

Lisa Flower

Docent | Biträdande universitetslektor

Porträtt på Lisa Flower. Foto: Emma Lord.

The (un)emotional law student

Författare

  • Lisa Flower

Summary, in English

Objectivity is central to many professions, ensuring legitimacy via impartiality and the detachment of emotional involvement. This article conducts an analysis of the emotion talk about objectivity in order to reveal and re-attach the emotions involved. This is achieved by determining how objectivity is presented in a profession viewed to be particularly objective namely the legal profession. Thereafter the article targets the ways in which this construction of objectivity is discussed by those learning to become legal professionals, with the focal point on emotions. The results indicate an on-going reconstruction of an emotional regime of objectivity using discursive emotion management strategies which create distance from emotions. A new paralingustic marker is also identified: the emotional sniff. Emotions and emotion work are thus seen by law students as central to legal work. This article contributes to filling the current gap in literature regarding how objectivity and emotions are regarded in legal education.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

295-309

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion

Volym

6

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Inderscience Publishers

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Nyckelord

  • law
  • objectivity
  • emotion management
  • emotion work
  • emotional regime
  • sociology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1740-8938