Table of Contents

Preface 1: The Social Character of Sympathy 2: Sympathy Giving: Forms and Process 3: Framing Events as Bad Luck: Sympathy Entrepreneurs and the Grounds for Sympathy 4: The Socioemotional Economy, Social Value, and Sympathy Margin 5: Sympathy Biography and the Rules of Sympathy Etiquette 6: Interpreting Deviance: The Sympathetic Response 7: Sympathy, Microhierarchy, and Micropolitics 8: Epilogue Appendix: Research Strategies References Name Index Subject Index