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Historical Tales and National Identity

János László
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Cognitive States
Collective Emotions
Collective Memory Representation
collective memory research
Collective Victimhood
Computer Aided Content Analysis
content analysis methodology
Emotion Attribution
Empathetic Strategies
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Gellner
Hobsbawm
Horthy Era
Hungarian historical narratives
Hungarian National
Hungarian National History
Hungarian National Identity
Intergroup Emotions
Intergroup Evaluation
intergroup relations psychology
Life Historical Narratives
LIWC
Narrative Categories
Narrative Evaluation
Narrative Social Psychology
Political System Change
Prestige Losses
psychological analysis of national trauma
Sarbin
Self-Critical Emotions
social cognition theory
Textbook Corpus
Trauma Elaboration
trauma narrative analysis
Trianon Peace Treaty
Trianon Trauma

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415704694
  • Weight: 317g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Nov 2013
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Social psychologists argue that people’s past weighs on their present. Consistent with this view, Historical Tales and National Identity outlines a theory and a methodology which provide tools for better understanding the relation between the present psychological condition of a society and representations of its past. Author Janos Laszlo argues that various kinds of historical texts including historical textbooks, texts derived from public memory (e.g. media or oral history), novels, and folk narratives play a central part in constructing national identity. Consequently, with a proper methodology, it is possible to expose the characteristic features and contours of national identities.

In this book Laszlo enhances our understanding of narrative psychology and further elaborates his narrative theory of history and identity. He offers a conceptual model that draws on diverse areas of psychology - social, political, cognitive and psychodynamics - and integrates them into a coherent whole. In addition to this conceptual contribution, he also provides a major methodological innovation: a content analytic framework and software package that can be used to analyse various kinds of historical texts and shed new light on national identity. In the second part of the book, the potential of this approach is empirically illustrated, using Hungarian national identity as the focus. The author also extends his scope to consider the potential generalizations of the approach employed.

Historical Tales and National Identity will be of great interest to a broad range of student and academic readers across the social sciences and humanities: in psychology, history, cultural studies, literature, anthropology, political science, media studies, sociology and memory studies.
About Janos Laszlo
János László is head of the Social Psychology Department at the Institute of Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a professor and chair in the Social Psychology Department at the University of Pécs, Hungary. He has published several books in Hungarian and English on social representations and narrative psychology, including The Science of Stories: An introduction into narrative psychology.

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