How is a new category "born"? On mechanisms of formation, cycles of recognition, and the looping effect of "national trauma
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4218162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Galia Plotkin-Amrami (0000-0003-3523-001X, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author), Galia Plotkin Amrami |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 413-431 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363459317695631 |
| PMID | 29233046 |
| OpenAlex | W2598911971 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article explores the mechanisms underlying the formation of a new category in the Israeli therapeutic field-"national trauma." By comparing the two different paths of emergence of this category, the research reexamines the meaning of Hacking's concept "looping effect" and, in particular, the issue of awareness of the categorized individuals and the categorizing knowledge-producers to the effects of a categorization. This study demonstrates that the formation of "national trauma" is both an intentional product of the efforts and ideology of practitioners and an unintentional outcome of their scientific and interventional activities. The comparative analysis allows us to elaborate the distinctions between the different social circles of recognition of new professional categories and different forms of affinity between the new category and an established social group. Understanding these distinctions is particularly valuable in relation to those problematic cases in which the new professional category is a highly contested object
Categorization · Data mining · Epistemology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Law · Mathematics · Psychiatric care and mental health services · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
The normal and the pathological
The Medicalization of Society
Trauma
Human Kinds and Looping Effects in Psychology
Nationalism and Literature
The Discursive Construction of National Identity
Not By Genes Alone
Identity and Trauma
Rewriting the Soul
The normal and the pathological
A Historical Analysis of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work
Nation and Commemoration
The Harmony of Illusions
Making up 'national trauma' in Israel
Cultures of Categories
Making up People
"From PTSD to "national trauma
Looping Kinds and Social Mechanisms
The Humanitarian Politics of Testimony
The Autism Matrix
Between Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman
Institutional conditions for diffusion
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |