This paper addresses the question of the relations between emotions and personhood, with a view to advancing a critical realist account of the role of emotions in social life. It is argued that the constitution of persons has to be approached from an ontological perspective, and that this raises questions about how sociology has addressed the meaning and role of emotions. Margaret Archer's critical realist perspective on them as commentaries on human concerns is broadly endorsed, but some significant correctives are proposed, especially with respect to the important distinction between primary and secondary emotions. To this end, it is argued that the affect spectrum theory advanced by Warren TenHouten can be fruitfully appended to a critical realist theory of emotions.

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情感、人格和社会本体：一种批判现实主义的方法

本文解决了情绪与人格之间的关系问题，以期推进对情绪在社会生活中的作用的批判现实主义解释。有人认为，必须从本体论的角度来研究人的构成，这提出了社会学如何处理情感的意义和作用的问题。玛格丽特·阿彻 (Margaret Archer) 将它们作为对人类关切的评论的批判现实主义观点得到了广泛认可，但提出了一些重要的纠正措施，尤其是在主要情绪和次要情绪之间的重要区别方面。为此，有人认为 Warren TenHouten 提出的情感谱理论可以富有成效地附加到批判现实主义的情感理论中。