Theories Of Social Remembering (Theorizing Society)

oral transmission accumulates actual alterations unconsciously, continually

In order to overcome the individualistic bias of psychological theories and the social determinism of many sociological studies, this book aims to review traditional and recent interpretations of the idea of collective memory.The main issue requiring clarification is the question of n'bo is a remembering subject and what is the nature of the past.

ordinary people felt the past to be so much a part of their present that they perceived no urgent need to preserve it (Duby

England's past became all issue of many political discourses, which revolved around interpretation, celebration and control of the past' (Cressy

lay memory, which was also shaped by the Church calendar (Le

'a unified Christian drama with no scope for or interest in differences between past and present' (Lowenthal

today's memory is `composed of hits and pieces' (Hervieu-Leger

experienced an event during adolescence orearly adulthood.

The shift from relying only on face-to face exchanges to depending on mediated interaction has profoundly affected the ways in which people organize material for recall as well as their modes of reconstructing the past (Thompson 1996: 95). Rapid