Despite substantial work in a variety of disciplines, substantive areas, and geographical contexts, social memory studies is a nonparadigmatic, transdisciplinary, 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.

Social Memory Studies: From “Collective Memory” to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices

Competing memories: Reading the past against the grain: The shape of memory studies

The following is simultaneously an essay in sociological theory, in cultural sociology, and in the empirical reconstruction of postwar Western history. Per theory, it introduces and specifies a mod...

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On the Social Construction of Moral Universals The `Holocaust' from War Crime to Trauma Drama

Since the 19th century at least public monuments have been the foci for collective participation in the politics and public life of villages, towns, and cities. They have acted as important centres...

: Cast in stone: monuments, geography and nationalism

Introduction Prt One: Governing Values: Leading minds: The world of the Victorian intellectual The culture of altruism: Selfishness and the decay of motive The idea of character: private habits and public virtues Part Two: Public Voices: Their master's voice: John Stuart Mill as a public moralist Manly fellows: Fawcett, Stephen, and the liberal temper Part Three: Moral Sciences: Their title to be heard: professionalization and its discontents An exclusively professional subject: the jurist as public moralist Part Four: English Geneologies: From dangerous partisan to national possession: John Stuart Mill in English culture 1873-1933 The Whig interpretation of English literature: literary history and national identity Index

Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850-1930

The Great War and Modern Memory

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Seeing Through Everything. English Writers 1918–1940

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The Great War and Modern Memory

Reflexivity in ‘Tristram Shandy’: An Essay in Phenomenological Criticism; Confinement and Flight: An Essay on English Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Seeing Through Everything. English Writers 1918–1940