‘Mixed feelings’ and emotional dissonance: how students navigate ritual and emotion in Canadian engineering culture
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Abstract
The Ritual of the Calling of the Engineer is a 100-year-old tradition in Canadian engineering, and the ‘iron ring’ is an emotionally resonant cultural symbol for many engineers. The ritual, its origins, and its place in engineering culture have been topics of recent public debate. In this paper, we analyse engineering students’ reflections on a classroom exercise that encouraged critical thinking around the ritual. Using Hochschild’s ‘feeling rules’ and framed by Durkheim and Collins’ conceptualizations of rituals, we identify collective understandings held by students about how one should feel about the ritual, as well as students’ emotional reactions to the classroom exercise. We find students shared strong collective understandings of the ritual but had a range of emotional responses to critical questions about it. We argue that this case demonstrates both the power of professional socialisation to establish feeling rules, and the prospects and challenges for individuals’ participation in (re)making them.
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