Institute of Sociology
of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Social memory meanings: formation and transformation



Social memory meanings: formation and transformation
ISBN 978-5-7598-1340-8; 978-5-7598-1342-2

Posted on site: 30.05.16

Abstract

The paper is concerned with the development of notion 'practics of memorization'  and is based on empirical data  and theoretical interpretation of it.   The process of transformation of memory meanings is seen in the context of sociopolitical change and the author the different stages of such process during 1990-s-2000s in Russia. The term translation of memory meanings in this context is understood as the process of communication between 'the creators of meanings', 'the translators' of meanings ( mass media) and' 'the recievers' -those who come to look at the definite  memory place.