Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity.

By:

Alexander, Jeffrey C

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TextPublication details: CA : University of California Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520936768
0520936760
128276280X
9781282762800
9786612762802
6612762802

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity.DDC classification:

361.1

LOC classification:

HN13 .C845 2004

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71.60

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Contents:

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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Summary: 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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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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