Download or read book Expressive Order written by David R. Heise and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces affect control theory to lay readers of sociology, and additionally guides sociology specialists into the theory's deep structure. It is the most comprehensive available introduction to affect control theory, an important and expanding framework in sociology. The book describes in plain language how sociology's best developed cybernetic model can be used to interpret actions and emotions that arise in everyday life.