Cultural trauma and collective identity / Jeffrey C. Alexander ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, Jeffrey C., Author.

Contributor:

Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social problems--Psychological aspects.

Psychic trauma--Social aspects.

Crises--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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 United States, and September 11, 2001.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma

Chapter 2. Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma

Chapter 3. Cultural Trauma

Chapter 4. The Trauma of Perpetrators

Chapter 5. The Trauma of Social Change

Chapter 6. On the Social Construction of Moral Universals

Epilogue. September 11, 2001, as Cultural Trauma

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612762802

9781282762800

128276280X

9780520936768

0520936760

OCLC:

773565044