Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity by Neil J. Smelser, Bernhard Giesen, Jeffrey C. Alexander

Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

Neil J. Smelser, Bernhard Giesen, Jeffrey C. Alexander

326 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 und...

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