While much of the sociological scholarship on intimacy has been understood in the normative sense of foregrounding and supporting human closeness, this article points to the role intimacy has as a sociological concept to better understand regulatory ties between the subject and the institution. While subject and institution are treated by modernity as distinct entities, separated by the boundary between private and the public, the article elucidates their mutual engagements by reviewing the work on intimacy in the sociology of emotions. Discussing the scholarship on intimacy from this perspective enables us to understand private suffering as a social problem linked to the collective recognition of subjective feelings. To illustrate the point, the article briefly reflects the public discourse on home upended by world‐wide stay‐at‐home orders to contain the spread of coronavirus disease 2019. While this article neither analyzes these orders, nor judges their legitimacy, it takes the particular situation as a chance to review the sociological discussion on the emotional boundaries of home, foregrounding the concept of intimacy. Intimacy is presented as a key sociological category for understanding collective recognition of people's emotions, which impacts the way emotions are seen as relevant and legitimate in public discussions of social problems.

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大流行时代的亲密，家庭和情感

尽管人们对亲密关系的许多社会学研究都是从对人的亲密关系的前台支持和规范性的角度来理解的，但本文指出，亲密关系作为一种社会学概念，可以更好地理解受试者与机构之间的监管联系，并具有一定的作用。虽然主题和制度被现代性视为不同的实体，被私人和公共之间的界限所分隔，但该文章通过回顾情感社会学中的亲密关系的工作来阐明它们的相互参与。从这种角度讨论关于亲密关系的奖学金，使我们能够将私人痛苦理解为与集体认识主观感觉相关的社会问题。为了说明这一点，这篇文章简要地反映了关于家庭的公共话语，它被世界范围内的在家定单所颠覆，以遏制2019年冠状病毒的传播。尽管本文既不分析这些定单，也不判断其合法性，但它以特殊情况为契机回顾关于家庭情感界限的社会学讨论，并提出亲密概念。亲密关系是理解人们对情感的集体认知的重要社会学类别，它影响了在社会问题的公开讨论中情感被视为相关且合法的方式。它以特殊情况为契机，回顾了关于家庭情感界限的社会学讨论，提出了亲密关系的概念。亲密关系是理解人们对情感的集体认知的重要社会学类别，它影响了在社会问题的公开讨论中情感被视为相关且合法的方式。它以特殊情况为契机，回顾了关于家庭情感界限的社会学讨论，提出了亲密关系的概念。亲密关系是理解人们对情感的集体认知的重要社会学类别，它影响了在社会问题的公开讨论中情感被视为相关且合法的方式。