Paper short abstract:

Aligning with sociological frameworks of emotions in relationships, this study posits that understanding a person's emotional vulnerabilities is a significant source to address intergenerational conflicts and communication, which is required for social anthropological understandings around emotions.

Paper long abstract:

Drawing upon the theoretical framework of sociological emotions as elucidated by Lupton (1998) and Hochschild (2003), the emotional vulnerabilities of an individual can be interpreted as a dual manifestation. Firstly, they serve as an accumulated repository, encapsulating subjective experiences that bear witness to resistance within a specific societal context. Secondly, these emotional vulnerabilities function as symbols, reflecting the influence of institutional and socio-cultural constraints that shape an individual's consciousness and determine their social trajectories. These emotional states signify facets of one's corporeal and psychological sovereignty and provide insights into dismantling subjugated identities within the self, such as internalised stigma or compromised identity that peripheral relations have impacted. However, dominant strands still stand for the deeply ingrained assumptions of Cartesian and Freudian psychological interpretations, which conventionally regard personal emotions as individual pathologies or liabilities.

Therefore, the discourse expounded within this paper resonates with the viewpoint advocated by the previously mentioned sociologists, asserting that emotions are the outcomes of socio-cultural influences within relational mechanisms. This assertion suggests that comprehending emotional narratives through anthropological perspectives represents a crucial avenue for reconciling disparate memories and cognitive frameworks about a particular event within a given society. Consequently, in light of the escalating phenomenon of intergenerational conflicts and societal fragmentation, this paper contends that integrating a socio-anthropological approach to personal emotions into educational curricula and psychological counselling procedures can contribute to reconceptualising common sense or normality across generations for their communication.