Alexander / Eyerman / Giesen Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-520-93676-8
Verlag: Naval Institute Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "e,cultural trauma"e,-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 "e,meaning making process"e, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexander, Jeffrey C.

Eyerman, Ron

Giesen, Bernard

Smelser, Neil J.

Sztompka, Piotr