Social Memory Studies: From “Collective Memory” to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices

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.

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Jeffrey K. Olick, Joyce Robbins (1998). Social Memory Studies: From “Collective Memory” to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices. Annual Review of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.105

@article{k1998social,
  title  = {Social Memory Studies: From “Collective Memory” to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices},
  author = {Olick, Jeffrey K. and Robbins, Joyce},
  year   = {1998},
  journal = {Annual Review of Sociology},
  doi    = {10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.105}
}

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