<p>In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"βand 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 t
Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
β Scribed by Jeffrey C. Alexander; Ron Eyerman; Neil J. Smelser; Piotr Sztompka; Bernhard Giesen
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 327
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"βand 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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