Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
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Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2004-03-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 0520936760 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780520936768 |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity by : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Book excerpt: 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.