Ulysses Medal lecture delivered by Prof Arlie Russell Hochschild (UC Berkeley Sociology Department) 10 September 2015
"In much of the world, the gap between rich and poor has widened. Yet, across Europe and the U.S. many rising right-wing groups oppose the very idea of equality. Why? Based on new fieldwork on the U.S. Tea Party – embraced by some quarter to a third of all voting Americans, I ask: what emotional needs does such a movement meet? How does emotion underlie political belief? In answer, I propose the concept of an allegorical story. It is a collectively shared, honor-focused, “feels-as-if” story."
Arlie Russell Hochschild is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of three New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, including The Second Shift, The Managed Heart, and The Time Bind. She has received numerous awards and grants ranging from Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships to a three-year research grant from the National Institute of Public Health. Her articles have appeared in Harper’s, Mother Jones, and The New York Times Magazine, among others. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, the writer Adam Hochschild; they have two sons
The event was hosted by UCD School of Sociology in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the TCD Policy Institute.
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