Hochschild and the Sociology of Emotion
Arlie Hochschild may be the most recognized sociologists today in the study of the sociology of emotion. Most
recently she came out with a widely read book “Strangers in their Own Land.” She spent five years visiting and
interviewing those persons in Louisiana we associate with the very conservative Republican Tea Party and who
tended to vote for Donald Trump. Unfortunately presidential candidate Hillary Clinton referred to such fellow
human beings as the “Deplorables.”
Professor Hochschild presents a sympathetic portrait of this population. You have to remember that she is a
retired professor and resident of Berkeley, California home of one of the most liberal universities in the United
States. (UC Berkeley) As a sociologist she wanted to understand the people in this Southern conservative state
that is a major oil producing part of the United States that actually is in a terrible environmental state with severe
pollution problems and decimation of the fishing industry, one of its heretofore assets and world renown for sea
food. It is also contains a place called “cancer alley” in proximity to where her informants lived.
Hochschild wanted to find out over the five years after numerous contacts what were the true feelings of her
informants she referred to as her now friends. She must have meant it since they as a group through a friend
from Berkeley were most receptive and gracious in their acceptance of her. What is astounding to us is that with
all the destructive effects of the oil industry and other manufacturing processes that will make their own
communities uninhabitable, they tended not to blame the companies but to blame government. Of course that
is partly understandable because in actuality Louisiana state government was extremely passive in regulating
industry in Louisiana. (It has a long history of corrupted government going back to Governor Huey Long)
So the title of the book, Strangers in their Own Land, because these residents hold on dearly to their deep stories:
ideologies, love of family, and religious convictions that they feel are ridiculed by the outside world.
The dilemma from my way of thinking is Hochschild’s portrait of this population is such that you want to accept
their beliefs and feelings. Who would not accept the desirability of closeness of family and neighbors? Who
would not appreciate the desire to make one’s way, to stand on one’s own feet as opposed to handouts from
government? These are very human feelings and legitimate concerns. On the other hand you can’t help but seeing
these people in a negative light to vote for obvious corrupt officials who continue deceive them—the biggest
corrupt official being President Donald Trump. We fear what great damage his administration will do to our
country and the world for that matter. Quite aside from its contribution to sociology, the book may evoke a backlash from liberal readers as
more and more Americans increase their loathing of the Trump Administration and in effect blame those
who voted him in. Let’s try to keep an open mind. We shouldn’t dismiss Hochschild’s contribution in its
effort to understand those whose views are so different from our own. As sociologists and as open-minded
human beings, we owe a debt to Hochschild’s undertaking.

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