Collective memory
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Collective memory is the shared pool of knowledge and information in the memories of two or more members of a social group. The English phrase "collective memory" and the equivalent French phrase "la mémoire collective" appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century. The philosopher and sociologist Maurice Halbwachs analyzed and advanced the concept of the collective memory in the book La mémoire collective (1950). Collective memory can be shared, passed on, and constructed, by large and small social groups. Examples of these groups could include a government or popular culture, among others. Collective memory parallels the memory of a person who is better at recalling images than words; but also exhibits key differences and features, such as cross-cueing.
See also
- Collective consciousness
- Collective intelligence, Distributed cognition
- Collective unconscious
- Digital preservation, Web archiving
- Les Lieux de Mémoire
- Meme
- National memory
- Selective omission – biases to taboo some elements of a collective memory.
- Memory consolidation
General studies
- Jan Assmann: Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies, Stanford UP 2005
- Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Collective Memory and the Historical Past, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Maurice Halbwachs: On Collective Memory, Univ of Chicago Press, 1992, Template:ISBN
- Pennebaker, James W. Paez, Dario. Rime, Bernard: Collective memory of political events : social psychological perspectives, Mahwah, New Jersey. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: 1997.
- Amy Corning & Howard Schuman: Generations and Collective Memory, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Template:ISBN
