基本説明
A new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility.
Full Description
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.
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 60 (52)
of African American Identity
RON EYERMAN
4. The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as 112(43)
the Traumatic Reference of German National
Identity
BERNHARD GIESEN
5. The Trauma of Social Change: A Case of 155(41)
Postcommunist Societies
PIOTR SZTOMPKA
6. On the Social Construction of Moral 196(68)
Universals: The "Holocaust" from War Crime to
Trauma Drama
JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER
Epilogue: September 11, 2001, as Cultural Trauma 264(19)
NEIL J. SMELSER
Bibliography 283(16)
Index 299
