Social Memory Studies: From “Collective Memory” to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Sociology
- Vol. 24 (1) , 105-140
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.105
Abstract
Despite substantial work in a variety of disciplines, substantive areas, and geographical contexts, social memory studies is a nonparadigmatic, transdisciplinary, centerless enterprise. To remedy this relative disorganization, we (re-)construct out of the diversity of work addressing social memory a useful tradition, range of working definitions, and basis for future work. We trace lineages of the enterprise, review basic definitional disputes, outline a historical approach, and review sociological theories concerning the statics and dynamics of social memory.Keywords
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