Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-297) and indexes.
The social character of sympathy -- Sympathy giving : forms and process -- Framing events as bad luck : sympathy entrepreneurs and the grounds for sympathy -- The socioemotional economy, social value, and sympathy margin -- Sympathy biography and the rules of sympathy etiquette -- Interpreting deviance : the sympathetic response -- Sympathy, microhierarchy, and micropolitics.