Nostalgia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charalambos Tsekeris (0000-0002-3304-5331), Anna Lydaki |
| Year | 2011 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosn032 |
| OpenAlex | W4244403249 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The term “nostalgia” is Greek in origin and composed of two words: Nostos , return to the native land; and Algos , which signifies a painful condition (sorrow, suffering, mourning, or grief). So it is indeed possible “from the force of the sound Nostalgia to define the sad mood originating from the desire to return to one's native land” (Hofer 1934: 380–1). However, nostalgia is not a singular or fixed condition (Koselleck 1985). The work of many scholars (such as David Anderson, Fred Davis, Jeffery Dean Webster, and Mary E. McCall) has indeed demonstrated the significant multiplicity of its modes, meanings, and interpretations, raised by the highly divergent experiences and expectations created by the modernization process: “The presence of multiple and different nostalgias among individuals and communities of social groups throughout Western modernity has to be acknowledged” (Tannock 1995: 454
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Grief · Late modernity · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Sorrow · Anthropology · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Studies · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |