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KMID : 0904520140370010005
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Health and Medical Sociology
2014 Volume.37 No. 1 p.5 ~ p.24
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The Prospect of a Sociological Approach to Trauma in Light of the Sinking of the “Sewol” Ferry
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Kim Wang-Bae
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Abstract
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The sinking of the ‘Sewol’ Ferry in Spring 2014 brought a great deal attention to the concept of “trauma”. This paper employs a social-scientific approach to propose a social model of trauma. This approach focuses on the structural background that produced the trauma and argues that the final stage of healing of the trauma is by identifying structural problems that impede new structural transformations. The healing method proposed in the model is a social process that combines individual trauma with social structural processes at the macro level: 1) obtaining social consensus that a particular event or incident is a traumatic one that needs resolution; 2) memorializing the traumatic event so that it is not forgotten through ritual and an offering of condolences; 3) examining the proximate and structural reasons in order to make an attribution of responsibility; 4) compensating the victims materially as well as socially to make them whole again in the eyes of society (“face”); 5) re-establishing social relations with the victims; 6) effecting a structural transformation through legal, ethical, cultural, and social means to re-establish and reinforce social solidarity.
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KEYWORD
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Trauma, Social Trauma, Sewol Ferry, Healing, Healing as Social Process
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