Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

Name: Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
SKU: INR-9780520235953
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SKU: INR-9780520235953 Categories: Trauma, All Books Tags: Social Science, General, Psychological Aspects, Sociology, Ingram, Social Aspects, Political Science, Psychic Trauma, Public Policy, Social Services & Welfare, Social Problems, Crises

Description

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.

Author: Alexander, Jeffrey C, Author: Eyerman, Ron, Author: Giesen, Bernard, Author: Smelser, Neil J, Author: Sztompka, Piotr

Topic: Politics / Current Events
Media: Book
ISBN: 520235959
Language: English
Pages: 314