Social memories: Steps to a sociology of the past

Zerubavel, Eviatar

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“…One explanation is that perceptions of a group's past are important for its cohesion. Perceptions of the past are not idiosyncratic thought processes, but they are socially shaped and shared across a group (Zerubavel 1997). Therefore, they become collective memories which include not only collective imaginings of the past, but also implicit assumptions and interpretations of the present and the ideas about the desired path for the future (Schwartz 1996b).…”

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“…The new Croatian generations, who are carriers of collective memories of Yugoslavia in their full sense of not personally, but socially experienced memories (Halbwachs 1992(Halbwachs [1952; Zerubavel 1996), are of focal interest in the present study. Moreover, these young people witnessed construction of collective memories on Yugoslavia.…”

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“…Individuals do not remember the collective past in isolation, but they do it as members of social groups, following social rules of remembrance (Zerubavel 1996).…”

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“…Consequently, collective memories cannot be predicted from individual recollections (Olick 1999;Kansteiner 2002) as they have their internal rules of organization which result in supraindividual forms of remembering and forgetting (Zerubavel 1996(Zerubavel , 2004. Several authors, therefore, conceptualized collective memories by emphasizing their intersubjective character.…”

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“…Individuals do not remember the collective past in isolation, but they do it as members of social groups, following social rules of remembrance (Zerubavel 1996). claims that individuals use culture as a repertoire or "toolkit" (Swidler 1986(Swidler , 2000.…”

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Social Changes and the Generational Differences in the Formation of Collective Memories (Dissertation, 2012)

Juroš¹

2016

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The present study found that the textbook and newspaper presentations, primarily shaped by the 1990s nation-building elites, mainly portrayed Yugoslavia in negative political, economic and ethnic terms. However, findings from 72 in-depth interviews with the two young Croatian generations suggested that the influence of the dominant negative re-evaluations was limited, particularly among the vocationally educated individuals who were least exposed to the institutionalized presentations of the Yugoslav past. In contrast, the young Croats, independently of their differences, generally dominantly evaluated Yugoslavia in positive social terms, which was a perspective obtained from their parents and older people recounting their good lives in Yugoslavia. This perspective was appropriated not only because its sources were emotionally available and credible, but also because the social lens on Yugoslavia helped the young Croats make sense of their lives in the social insecurities of the contemporary Croatian society.ix Therefore, the present study showed how different beliefs on the Yugoslav past, available from different sources, were appropriated and used by the young Croats. I also proposedInteractional Model of Collective Memories Formation, which elaborated how the influences on the beliefs of the past were formed at the macro, micro and the level of social interaction. Finally, this study also illuminated how active actors reinterpreted the presentations of the past, thus demonstrating how individuals can use culture in diverse and adept ways. They wore their hair long, discovered LSD and pot They sang about peace, with Tito they were non-aligned On national basis, they were not divided It was easy to talk philosophy in a student mess, To be a penniless artist and a musician in-between In a place where things were working out all-right, where the state functioned It was easy to be a student in the 1970s My folks -they easily found their first job Nobody hit the unemployment office with a degree in their hands The living was good in that party system Nobody talked about Goli otok, you just changed the subject The students with their hair long got a degree and got a job, got their paycheck regularly You even could get an apartment from the United Work It was easy then to have big plans To make your own nest, to be relaxed, no tensions there To have your spot in the company reserved, in the selfmanagement committee as well You stayed until you retired -all your life at the same desk Everything didn't seem as a bluff, a cheap trick in those days Nobody went hungry They were happy in their little apartment Secure job and a retirement fund It was an easy decision to have us Nothing is the same anymore, there is no secure path There is no direct flight to the stars, to the better tomorrow Black-and- (born 1989-91), was born after the break-up, but it spent its formative years in democratizing post-Yugoslav period.Both these generations were hardly able to form mature meaningful evaluations of the past. 4Rather, for th...

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“…Individuals do not remember the collective past in isolation, but they do it as members of social groups, following social rules of remembrance (Zerubavel 1996).…”

Section: Studying Collective Memories: Development Of the Field And Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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2016

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Collective Memory and Social Movements

Zamponi¹

2022

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

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Researchers on social movements have grown increasingly interested in memories through two main channels: the increasing focus on the symbolic dimension of collective action and the attempt to widen the temporal perspective within social movement studies, with research on continuity, abeyance, outcomes, events, and critical junctures. Though large protests often surprise observers, they are rooted in what came before them. The nexus between memory and movements has been explored mainly in three ways: memories of movements ; movements about memory ; and memories in movements . Memory is at the same time an outcome of protest and a tool in constructing new mobilizations. Movement actors access the past in a complex way, and are placed in a symbolic environment that is structured and shaped by the past, presenting them with strategic dilemmas regarding what is to be done with it.

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Photographic Acts and Arts of Memory

Langford¹

2019

A Companion to Photography

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Social memories: Steps to a sociology of the past

Cited by 447 publications

References 16 publications

Social Changes and the Generational Differences in the Formation of Collective Memories (Dissertation, 2012)

Social Changes and the Generational Differences in the Formation of Collective Memories (Dissertation, 2012)

Collective Memory and Social Movements

Photographic Acts and Arts of Memory

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