Exordio a la memoria colectiva y el olvido social

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

This is a discussion of the cultural roles that memory & forgetting play in society. The article argues that remembrance & oblivion are in constant social conflict. Thus, memory & forgetting are not exclusively individual phenomena, but are to be found in society as a whole. It was not well understood in the twentieth century that memory & forgetting are opposites of the same collective force. Indeed, societal forces guide collective memory even as language sustains it. In the opposite sense, censorship, oppression, & silence work against collective memory, resulting in social forgetfulness. Taken together, social memory & social forgetfulness can be said to provide a culture with its distinctive presences & absences. Thus, the relational stress between remembering & forgetting is one of the prime building blocks of society.

Object Details

• Alternative title: On collective memory and social forgetting
• Extent: Seite(n): 1-26
• Language: Spanisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Athenea Digital: Revista de Pensamiento e Investigacion Social(8)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Psychologie ; Sozialpsychologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Mendoza Garcia, Jorge
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Spanien
• (when): 2005

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-64508
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST