【2014】Attachment Security and the Social World
Book 图书名称: Attachment Security and the Social World
Author 作者: Antigonos Sochos
Publisher 出版社: Palgrave Macmillan
Page 页数: 224
Publishing Date 出版时间: Nov 19, 2014
Language 语言: English
Size 大小: 0.5 MB
Format 格式: pdf 文字版
ISBN: 113739868X, 9781137398680
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛,没有该文档
Antigonos Sochos develops the notion of attachment from a dyadic phenomenon to a collective one. He proposes that, like individuals, social groups also collectively seek protection and security in reference to their ideologies and social institutions. Social groups that are informed by collective attachment representations underpinned by insecurity tend to construct ideological and institutional systems that cannot make them feel genuinely safe. Such groups are likely to resort to ideological rigidity, insularity, dysfunction, and conflict with other groups. Insecure collective attachment is often constructed in reference to social experiences of coercion, violence, and trauma. The book explores the American-led response to the 9/11 attacks and argues that this was a response predominantly guided by insecure collective attachment representations. As the attacks activated collective attachment, the American and other western societies drew on their long social history of coercion, violence, and trauma only to construct an incoherent collective attachment narrative and engage in ineffective protective action. With an overview of the existing literature on the subject and new contributions to the field, this book extends attachment theory by demonstrating how it can inform wider socio-cultural phenomena.