Olick О., Robbins J. Social Memory Studies. From Collective Memory to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices

Article published in the Annual Review of Sociology — 1998 — Vol. 24 — pp. 105-140.Despite substantial work in a variety of disciplines, substantive areas, and geographicalc ontexts, social memory studies is a nonparadigmatict, ransdisciplinary, centerless enterprise. To remedy this relative disorganization, we (re-)construct out of the diversity of work addressing social memory a useful tradition, range of working definitions, and basis for future work. We trace lineages of the enterprise, review basic definitional disputes, outline a historical approach, and review sociological theories concerning the statics and dynamics of social memory