All memory is social. Everyday we create memories, and we all use memory in our everyday lives but in the end we only remember some of them. Memory is the tool we use to learn and think. Right now you're reading this, and you're probably thinking to yourself a memory of your own. In this paper I will be discussing the qualities, and nature from Professor Roy, William’s book, “Making Societies” and Sociologist Zerubavels’ text in “Time Maps”. Social memory helps to determine the boundaries around the groups that hold them in major forms, such as, social, collective, historical and mnemonic memory as it all ties together. Sociologist Zerubavel presents historical facts as well as a study of the relation of social life, and nation identity.
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“Libraries, bibliographies, folk legends, photo albums, and television archives thus constitute the “sites” of social memory.” (Zerubavel, pg. 6) These are one of many types of social memories. In the text, Zerubavel mentioned, “most studies of social memory basically focus on the content of what we collectively remember.” (2004, pg. 7) A social memory may be microscopic, for example a tight knit family, where members are all known. As Zerubavel states, “there are numerous kinds of data sources on which one can thus draw when conducting research on social memory”. (2004, pg. 6) However, social memory involves not only personal but also many types of collective recollections. “As one can certainly tell by the fact that we do not recall every single thing that has ever happened to us, …show more content…
Collective memory is defined as the ability in the society that is collected through experience when interacting with each other in social groups and even all over the world. Collective memory is what gives a society its goals that we seek in the past, present and future. In fact, collective attitudes and such behaviors are established through common backgrounds and intercommunication that is set on a group of people. An example of collective memory is when a person can have a better understanding of recalling images than words. Like myself, visual learners can relate to this as well. “Portraits, statues, photographs, and videocassettes, for example, represent various effects to capture the images and sounds of the past and thereby offer posterity visual as well as auditory access to historical figures”. (Zerubavel, pg. 6) You can also use the term collective memory to describe, symbols, music, or even food and beverages. The Zionist movement is a great example caused by collective and historical memory, as well as the Holocaust, which uses carefully selected techniques that gives us insight into the relationship between history and memory in it. Collectively we are responsible for recording information that is in our environment and spatial orientation. Collective memory belongs to a traditional society, while history is the modern human being’s collective memory. In
“Libraries, bibliographies, folk legends, photo albums, and television archives thus constitute the “sites” of social memory.” (Zerubavel, pg. 6) These are one of many types of social memories. In the text, Zerubavel mentioned, “most studies of social memory basically focus on the content of what we collectively remember.” (2004, pg. 7) A social memory may be microscopic, for example a tight knit family, where members are all known. As Zerubavel states, “there are numerous kinds of data sources on which one can thus draw when conducting research on social memory”. (2004, pg. 6) However, social memory involves not only personal but also many types of collective recollections. “As one can certainly tell by the fact that we do not recall every single thing that has ever happened to us, …show more content…
Collective memory is defined as the ability in the society that is collected through experience when interacting with each other in social groups and even all over the world. Collective memory is what gives a society its goals that we seek in the past, present and future. In fact, collective attitudes and such behaviors are established through common backgrounds and intercommunication that is set on a group of people. An example of collective memory is when a person can have a better understanding of recalling images than words. Like myself, visual learners can relate to this as well. “Portraits, statues, photographs, and videocassettes, for example, represent various effects to capture the images and sounds of the past and thereby offer posterity visual as well as auditory access to historical figures”. (Zerubavel, pg. 6) You can also use the term collective memory to describe, symbols, music, or even food and beverages. The Zionist movement is a great example caused by collective and historical memory, as well as the Holocaust, which uses carefully selected techniques that gives us insight into the relationship between history and memory in it. Collectively we are responsible for recording information that is in our environment and spatial orientation. Collective memory belongs to a traditional society, while history is the modern human being’s collective memory. In