Cultural trauma and collective identity

In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"-and on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility. Looki...

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Main Author: Alexander, Jeffrey C., author (author)
Other Authors: Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press 2004.
Edition:1st ed
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Summary:In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"-and on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility. Looking at the "meaning making process" as an open-ended social dialogue in which strikingly different social narratives vie for influence, they outline a strongly constructivist approach to trauma and apply this theoretical model in a series of extensive case studies, including the Nazi Holocaust, slavery in the United States, and September 11, 2001.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (327 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781282762800
9786612762802
9780520936768