Collective Remembering: 4 (Inquiries in Social Construction series) - Softcover

David Middleton; Derek Edwards

 
9780803982352: Collective Remembering: 4 (Inquiries in Social Construction series)

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Derek Edwards is Reader in Discursive Psychology in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. He is co-author (with Neil Mercer) of Common Knowledge, (with Jonathan Potter) of Discursive Psychology and (with others) of Ideological Dilemmas.

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9780803982345: Collective Remembering (Inquiries in Social Construction series)

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ISBN 10:  0803982348 ISBN 13:  9780803982345
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1990
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