Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

by Piotr Sztompka, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Neil J. Smelser, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520235959
• ISBN13: 9780520235953
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"