On Collective Memory

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Overview

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge.

Halbwachs' primary thesis is that human memory can only function within a collective context. Collective memory, Halbwachs asserts, is always selective; various groups of people have different collective memories, which ...

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Overview

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge.

Halbwachs' primary thesis is that human memory can only function within a collective context. Collective memory, Halbwachs asserts, is always selective; various groups of people have different collective memories, which in turn give rise to different modes of behavior. Halbwachs shows, for example, how pilgrims to the Holy Land over the centuries evoked very different images of the events of Jesus' life; how wealthy old families in France have a memory of the past that diverges sharply from that of the nouveaux riches; and how working class construction of reality differ from those of their middle-class counterparts.

With a detailed introduction by Lewis A. Coser, this translation will be an indispensable source for new research in historical sociology and cultural memory.

Lewis A. Coser is Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the State University of New York and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Boston College.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780226115962
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date: 9/1/1992
  • Edition description: 1
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 244
  • Sales rank: 487,477
  • Series: Heritage of Sociology Series Series
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Lewis A. Coser (1913-2003) was Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the State University of New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Maurice Halbwachs 1877-1945 1
I The Social Frameworks of Memory
Preface 37
1 Dreams and Memory Images 41
2 Language and Memory 43
3 The Reconstruction of the Past 46
4 The Localization of Memories 52
5 The Collective Memory of the Family 54
6 Religious Collective Memory 84
7 Social Classes and Their Traditions 120
8 Conclusion 167
II The Legendary Topography of the Gospels in the Holy Land
Conclusions 193
Index 237
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