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Collective remembering

edited by David Middleton and Derek Edwards

(Inquiries in social construction)

Sage Publications, 1990

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographies and index

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Description

Profoundly challenging the traditional view of memory as the product and property of individual minds, Collective Remembering is concerned with remembering and forgetting as socially constituted activities. The starting point is a conceptualization of remembering and forgetting as forms of social action. Individual memories cannot be understood as `internal mental processes' which occur independently of the interpretive and communicative practices which characterize a particular society or culture. Individuals `read', account for and negotiate their memories within the pragmatics of social life. Contributions also explore the collective processes through which communities' social memories are created, sustained and transformed - in families, other groups and cultures, organizations.

Table of Contents

Preface - Michael Cole Introduction - David Middleton and Derek Edwards Conversational Remembering - David Middleton and Derek Edwards A Social Psychological Approach Artefacts, Memory and a Sense of the Past - Alan Radley Collective Memory, Ideology and the British Royal Family - Michael Billig The Reconstruction of Abraham Lincoln - Barry Schwartz Ronald Reagan Misremembered - Michael Schudson The Social Construction of Remembering and Forgetting - John Shotter Organizational Forgetting - Yrj[um]o Engestr[um]om, Katherine Brown, Ritva Engestr[um]om and Kirsi Koistinen An Activity-Theoretical Perspective Sharing Knowledge, Celebrating Identity - Julian E Orr Community Memory in a Service Culture Folk Explanation in Language Survival - Carol A Padden Social Memory in Soviet Thought - David Bakhurst

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