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Collective Memory -- What is It?, in History and Memory » Read Now
by Noa Gedi, Yigal Elam. 21 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...Noa Gedi and Yigal Elam Collective Memory -- What Is It? There is...does not mention the term "collective memory" or its complementary counterpart...consider the function...
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Collective Memory of Political Events: Social Psychological Perspectives » Read Now
by James W. Pennebaker, Dario Paez, Bernard Rime. 310 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Collective Memory of Political Events Social Psychological Perspectives Collective Memory of Political Events Social Psychological...Cataloging-in-Publication Data...
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Social Memory Studies: From "Collective Memory" to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices, in Annual Review of Sociology » Read Now
by Jeffrey K. Olick, Joyce Robbins. 36 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...Social memory studies: from "collective memory" to the historical sociology...first explicit use of the term collective memory we could find was by Hugo von...piled up...
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(Not) Writing History: Rethinking the Intersections of Personal History and Collective Memory with Hans Von Aufsess, in History and Memory » Read Now
by Susan A. Crane. 25 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...Intersections of Personal History and Collective Memory with Hans von Aufsess...and history as corroborable collective memory ( Historie ) collapse in...
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Urban Space and Collective Memory: Analysing the Various Dimensions of the Production of Memory, in Canadian Journal of Urban Research » Read Now
by Anouk Belanger. 24 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Urban space and collective memory: analysing the various dimensions...analysis of the production of urban collective memory. The various productions of memory...local...
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The Social Context of Commemoration: A Study in Collective Memory, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Barry Schwartz. 29 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...Commemoration: A Study in Collective Memory * BARRY SCHWARTZ, University...findings on different theories of collective memory is discussed. Recollection...of new data...
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Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology (Discussion of collective memory begins on p. 95) » Read Now
by Eviatar Zerubavel. 164 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Why do we eat sardines, but never goldfish; ducks, but never parrots? Why does adding cheese make a hamburger a "cheeseburger" whereas adding ketchup does not make it a "ketchupburger"? By the same token, how do we determine which things said at a meeting should be included in the minutes and which...
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Why do we eat sardines, but never goldfish; ducks, but never parrots? Why does adding cheese make a hamburger a "cheeseburger" whereas adding ketchup does not make it a "ketchupburger"? By the same token, how do we determine which things said at a meeting should be included in the minutes and which ought to be considered "off the record" and officially disregarded?
In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Eviatar Zerubavel argues that cognitive science cannot answer these questions, since it addresses cognition on only two levels: the individual and the universal. To fill the gap between the Romantic vision of the solitary thinker whose thoughts are the product of unique experience, and the cognitive-psychological view, which revolves around the search for the universal foundations of human cognition, Zerubavel charts an expansive social realm of mind--a domain that focuses on the conventional, normative aspects of the way we think.
With witty anecdote and revealing analogy, Zerubavel illuminates the social foundation of mental actions such as perceiving, attending, classifying, remembering, assigning meaning, and reckoning th
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Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past (Chap. 3 "Collective Memory and Watergate") » Read Now
by Michael Schudson. 284 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Aberration? 34 3. Collective Memory and Watergate 51...enthusiasm for the study of collective memory when I first presented my ideas...on "Culture, Ideology, and...
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Memory and the Cult of Revolution in the 1871 Paris Commune, in Journal of Women's History » Read Now
by Martin P. Johnson. 19 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Commune, was founded upon a collective memory of the October Days of 1789...many instances in which the collective memory of the revolutionary tradition...the last 10 years...