The review is devoted to the search by contemporary sociologists for new theoretical models and conceptual schemes needed for comprehending the now different social functions of emotions in the 21st century, in particular those of the phenomenon of fear as a key fea-ture of late modern societies.
Keywords
emotions; emotionalization of social life; emotional turn; affective turn; therapeutic culture; post-paradigmatic analysis; so-cial epistemology; emotional capitalism; fear; COVID-19.
