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 an...
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Preface
1. Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma: Jeffrey C. Alexander
2. Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma: Neil J. Smelser
3. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and t...
Sobre o autor
Jeffrey C. Alexander is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at Yale University, the author of The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociolog...