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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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Autor principal: Alexander, Jeffrey C.
Otros Autores: Sztompka, Piotr, Smelser, Neil J., Giesen, Bernard, Eyerman, Ron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: CA : University of California Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9780520936768