Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

Name: Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
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ISBN: 9780520235953

ISBN-10: 0520235959

ISBN-13: 9780520235953

Edition: 2004

Authors: 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.

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/22/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma




Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma




Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity




The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity




The Trauma of Social Change: A Case of Postcommunist Societies




On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The "Holocaust" from War Crime to Trauma Drama



Epilogue: September 11, 2001, as Cultural Trauma



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Index