Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity PDF
by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ron Eyerman, Bernard Giesen, Neil J. Smelser, Piotr Sztompka
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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.
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- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2004
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- ISBN:9780520936768
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2004
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- ISBN:9780520936768