{"id":1855,"date":"2025-12-15T17:50:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/el-emke.aegean.gr\/koinoniologia\/?post_type=course&#038;p=1855"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:43:30","slug":"koinoniologia-tou-politismikou-traf","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/soc.aegean.gr\/en\/info\/course\/koinoniologia-tou-politismikou-traf\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology of Cultural Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The course focuses on existing theories of traumatic memory and the social implications it has on the formation of individual and collective identities. At the same time, the importance of studying emotions in social bonding and the formation of collective memory is highlighted. In particular, during the lectures, texts by J. Alexander, R. Eyerman, P. Sztompka, B. Giesen, etc. are examined. The course emphasizes the sociological approach to cultural trauma, while with reference to examples, the ways of utilizing collectively expressed trauma and traumatic memory at a political level are highlighted. In contrast to psychological-clinical trauma, which presupposes direct experience with a traumatic event, cultural trauma is associated with the redefinition of identity at the level of a social group and with the ways of reading the past in its connection with the present and the future. By extension, emphasis is placed on the construction of trauma and particularly on the content of mediation and representation that frames collective memory with the potential for reconstruction and transformation of cultural identities. During the course, students will examine the complexity of social research as well as the issues of research ethics and morality that arise in the study of cultural trauma.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-1855","course","type-course","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.aegean.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.aegean.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.aegean.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.aegean.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}