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Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

Neil J. Smelser

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 326

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of California Press

Release: March 22, 2004

ISBN: 0520235959

ISBN 13: 9780520235953

Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

Neil J. Smelser

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 326

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of California Press

Release: March 22, 2004

ISBN: 0520235959

ISBN 13: 9780520235953

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