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- Dean Curran
- 2020
Why does Alexander only talk about problems concerning (mainly) the white majority population? Would not racial discrimination, uneven crime and punishment statistics, and labor inequalities qualify as social problems?
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Jeffrey Charles Alexander (born 1947) is an American sociologist, and a prominent social theorist. He is the founding figure in the school of cultural sociology he refers to as the "strong program".
- Jeffrey C. Alexander
- Ordinary Language and Reflexivity
- Lay Trauma Theory
- Psychoanalytic Thinking
- The Naturalistic Fallacy
- The Social Process of Cultural Trauma
Cultural trauma occurs when members of a collectivity feel they have been subjected to a horrendous event that leaves indelible marks upon their group consciousness, marking their memories forever and changing their future identity in fundamental and irrevocable ways. As we develop it here, cultural trauma is first of all an empirical, sci-entific ...
One of the great advantages of this new theoretical concept is that it par-takes so deeply of everyday life. Throughout the twentieth century, first in Western societies and then, soon after, throughout the rest of the world, people have spoken continually about being traumatized by an experience, by an event, by an act of violence or harassment, o...
According to lay theory, traumas are naturally occurring events that shat-ter an individual or collective actor’s sense of well-being. In other words, the power to shatter—the “trauma”—is thought to emerge from events themselves. The reaction to such shattering events—“being trauma-tized”—is felt and thought to be an immediate and unreflexive respo...
Such realist thinking continues to permeate everyday life and scholarly thought alike. Increasingly, however, it has come to be filtered through a psychoanalytic perspective that has become central to both contempo-rary lay common sense and academic thinking. This approach places a model of unconscious emotional fears and cognitively distorting mec...
It is through these Enlightenment and psychoanalytic approaches that trauma has been translated from an idea in ordinary language into an intellectual concept in the academic languages of diverse disciplines. Both perspectives, however, share the “naturalistic fallacy” of the lay under-standing from which they derive. It is upon the rejection of th...
At the level of the social system, societies can experience massive disrup-tions that do not become traumatic. Institutions can fail to perform. Schools may fail to educate, failing miserably even to provide basic skills. Governments may be unable to secure basic protections and may undergo severe crises of delegitimation. Economic systems may be p...
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In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe.
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