Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity,9780520235953

Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

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ISBN13: 9780520235953
ISBN10: 0520235959
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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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 United States, and September 11, 2001.

Author Biography

Jeffrey C. Alexander is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at Yale University

Table of Contents

Preface vii
1. Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma 1(30)
JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER
2. Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma 31(29)
NEIL J. SMELSER
3. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity 60(52)
RON EYERMAN
4. The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity 112(43)
BERNHARD GIESEN
5. The Trauma of Social Change: A Case of Postcommunist Societies 155(41)
PIOTR SZTOMPKA
6. On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The "Holocaust" from War Crime to Trauma Drama 196(68)
JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER
Epilogue: September 11, 2001, as Cultural Trauma 264(19)
NEIL J. SMELSER
Bibliography 283(16)
Index 299

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