Attachment security and the social world
By: Antigonos Sochos
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781137398680
Subjects: Attachment behavior; Social psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Description: "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 typically constructed in reference to social experiences of coercion, violence, and trauma. This 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 older essential studies and new contributions to the field, this book extends attachment theory by demonstrating how it can inform wider socio-cultural phenomena"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1.Introduction to Attachment Research2.Attachment and Social Groups3.Attachment and Systems of Meaning4.Beyond Dyadic Relationships: The Collective Organisation of Attachment5.Collective Attachment and The Response to 9/116.Collective Attachment and the Western Tradition of Coercion and ViolenceEpilogue.