Cultural Trauma and Collective IdentityIn 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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Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma | 25 |
Cultural Trauma Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity | 54 |
The Trauma of Perpetrators The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity | 106 |
The Trauma of Social Change A Case of Postcommunist Societies | 149 |
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Page 5 - Trauma is not locatable in the simple violent or original event in an individual's past, but rather in the way its very unassimilated nature — the way it was precisely not known in the first instance — returns to haunt the survivor later on.
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| Title | Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity |
| Authors | Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ron Eyerman, Bernard Giesen, Neil J. Smelser, Piotr Sztompka |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0520936760, 9780520936768 |
| Length | 304 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Sociology / General |
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