Schauenburg, Gesche; Aryani, Arash; Hsu, Chun-Ting; … - In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und … 76 (2024) 3, pp. 603-625
Affect control theory (ACT) is a sociological theory of meaning processing in social interactions. Meaning, according to ACT, derives from cultural institutions and situational affordances, having denotative (declarative) as well as connotative (affective) properties. Mathematical formalizations...