Kathryn J. Lively
Professor
Appointments
Professor of Sociology
Area of Expertise
Sociology of Emotion,
Emotion Management,
Social Psychology,
Affect Control Theory,
Identity,
Internal Family Systems
Biography
I am a Professor (and Past Chair, 2011-15) in the Sociology Department. My teaching and research interests are at the nexus of identity, emotion, and culture. As a result, I teach introductory courses in sociological social psychology, emotion, and culture. I am currently involved in two long-term research projects. The first seeks to identify the social psychological and cultural mechanisms that underly significant and sustainable weight loss. The second marries two theories - one from sociological social psychology and the other from psychiatry - to explain how past trauma is able to reframed in ways that support emotional healing and identity transfomation, even among those with complex trauma. I have served on the editorial boards of Journal of Health and Social Behavior and Social Psychology Quarterly and as action editor for Emotion Review. My scholarly work has appeared in such outlets as American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, Emotion Review, Work & Occupations, and Symbolic Interaction, among others. I served as the inaugural house professor for South House (2015-19) and Dean of the College from 2018-2021.
Education
A.A. Tulsa Community College
B.A. University of Tulsa
M.A. Vanderbilt University
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University
Post Doctoral Fellow Indiana University - Bloomington
Taught Courses
Publications
Linda E. Francis, Kathryn J. Lively, Alexandra Konig & Jesse Hoey. 2020. "The Affective Self: Persistence of Self-Sentiments in Late Life Dementia." Social Psychology Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272519883910
Matthews, Morgan C. and Kathryn J. Lively. 2017. "Making Volunteer-Based Democracy 'Work': Gendered Coping Strategies in a Citizen Legislature." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023117705535
McLeod, Jane D, Timothy Hallett, and Kathryn J. Lively. 2015. "Beyond Three Faces: Toward an Integrated Social Psychology of Inequality." Advances in Group Processses, 32: 1-29.
Lively, Kathryn J. and David R. Heise. 2014. "Emotion in Affect Control Theory." In The Handbook of the Sociology of Emotion, Volume II, edited by J.E. Stets and J.H. Turner. New York: Springer.
Lively, Kathryn J. and Emi A. Weed. 2014. "Emotion Management: Sociological Insight into What, How, Why and To What End?" Emotion Review 6 (3): 202-207.
Lively, Kathryn J. 2013. "Age and Its Effect on the Experience and Management of Emotion." Advances in Group Processes 30: 231-265.
Kent L. Sandstrom, Kathryn J. Lively, Daniel D. Martin and Gary Alan Fine. 2013 Selves, Symbols, and Society. 4th Edition. Oxford University Press.
Lively, Kathryn J. 2013. "Social and Cultural Influences: Gender Effects on Emotion Labor at Work and at Home." In Alicia Grandey, James A. Diefendorff, and Deborah Rupp (Eds.). Emotional Labor in the 21st Century: Diverse Perspectives on Emotion Regulation at Work. New York, NY: Psychology Press/Routledge.
Lively, Kathryn J., Lala Steelman, and Brian Powell. 2010. "Equity, Emotion, and the Household Division of Labor." Social Psychology Quarterly 73: 358-379.
Simon, Robin W. and Kathryn J. Lively. 2010. "Investigating the Relationships Among Sex, Anger, and Depression." Social Forces 88: 1543-1568.
Cheng, Simon and Kathryn J. Lively. 2009. "Multiracial Self-identification and Adolescent Outcomes: Revisiting the Marginal Man Thesis." Social Forces 88: 61-98.
Lively, Kathryn J. 2008. "Emotional Segueing and the Management of Emotion, By Women and Men."Social Forces 87:911-36.
Lively, Kathryn J., Brian Powell, Glaudia Geist, and Lala Carr Steelman. 2008. "Inequity among Intimates."in Karen Hegtvedt and Jody Clay-Warner [Eds.] Advances in Group Processes 25: 87-116.
Lively, Kathryn J. and Brian Powell. 2006. "Emotional Expression at Work and at Home: Domain, Status or Individual Characteristics?" Social Psychology Quarterly 69: 17-38.
Lively, Kathryn J. and David R. Heise. 2004. "Sociological Realms of Emotional Experience." American Journal of Sociology 109:1109-36.
Lively, Kathryn J. 2002. "Client Contact and Emotional Labor: Upsetting the Balance and Evening the Field." Work and Occupations, Vol 29: 198-225.
Lively, Kathryn J. 2001. "Occupational Claims to Professionalism: The Case of Paralegals." Symbolic Interaction. Vol. 24: 343-66.
Lively, Kathryn J. 2000. "Reciprocal Emotion Management: Working Together to Maintain Stratification in Private Law Firms." Work and Occupations. Vol. 27: 32-63
Works in Progress
Kathryn J. Lively. "Affective Sentiment Change in an Online Weightloss Community."
Kathryn J. Lively. Reframing Trauma One Event At a Time: The Social Psychological Underpinings of Internal Family Systems Therapy.
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