Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 0520936760
ISBN-13 : 9780520936768
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Book Synopsis Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity by : Jeffrey C. Alexander

Download or read book Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-03-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.


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