Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity.

Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity.

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. Look...

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Main Author: Alexander, Jeffrey C.
Other Authors: Eyerman, Ron, Giesen, Bernard, Smelser, Neil J., Sztompka, Piotr
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: CA : University of California Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Social problems > Psychological aspects.
Psychic trauma > Social aspects.
Crises > Psychological aspects.
Change (Psychology)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Crises > Psychological aspects
Psychic trauma > Social aspects
Social problems > Psychological aspects
Trauma's (psychologie)
Crises.
Sociale problemen.
Psychologische aspecten.
Traumatisme psychique.
Traumatisme.
Sociologie.
Changement (Psychologie)
Problèmes sociaux.
Identité collective.
Aspect social.
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (327 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520936768
0520936760
128276280X
9781282762800
9786612762802
6612762802
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized

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