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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464286903321
• Autore: Alexander Jeffrey C.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004
• ISBN: 1-282-76280-X; 9786612762802; 0-520-93676-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): AlexanderJeffrey C. <1947->
• Disciplina: 361.1
• Soggetti: Social problems - Psychological aspects; Psychic trauma - Social aspects; Crises - Psychological aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.