Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity.

Alexander, Jeffrey C.

Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity. - CA : University of California Press, 2004. - 1 online resource (327 pages) -

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma; 2. Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma; 3. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity; 4. The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity; 5. The Trauma of Social Change: A Case of Postcommunist Societies; 6. On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The "Holocaust" from War Crime to Trauma Drama; Epilogue: September 11, 2001, as Cultural Trauma; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z.

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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


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Social problems--Psychological aspects.
Psychic trauma--Social aspects.
Crises--Psychological aspects.
Change (Psychology)
Problèmes sociaux--Aspect psychologique.
Traumatisme psychique--Aspect social.
Changement (Psychologie)
Crises (Sciences sociales)--Aspect psychologique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Human Services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--General.
Crises--Psychological aspects.
Psychic trauma--Social aspects.
Social problems--Psychological aspects.
Trauma's (psychologie)
Crises.
Sociale problemen.
Psychologische aspecten.
Traumatisme psychique.
Traumatisme.
Sociologie.
Changement (Psychologie)
Problèmes sociaux.
Identité collective.
Aspect social.


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