Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
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Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity by Jeffrey C Alexander
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.
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 Sociology (2003), and the editor of Real Civil Societies (1998). Ron Eyerman is the author of Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity (2001). Bernhard Giesen is the author of Intellectuals and the Nation: Collective Identity in a German Axial Age (1997). Neil J. Smelser is the author of The Social Aspects of Psychoanalysis (California, 1998). Piotr Sztompka is the author of Trust: A Sociological Theory (1999).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520235953 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520235959 |
| Title | Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity |
| Author | Jeffrey C Alexander |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2004-03-22 |
| Number of pages | 326 |
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