Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Release : 2004-03-22
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 760/5 ( reviews)
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. This book was released on 2004-03-22. 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.