Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Devam Ediyor
"Humanities (e.g., history, sociology, anthropology) emphasize cultural memory (e.g., monuments, history textbooks, commemorations) and assert that it is what collective memory should mainly refer to, the other group (i.e., psychologists) stand for communicative memory (i.e., shared individual memories that bear on social identity). One fundamental knowledge gap is that collective memory studies keep going in one direction depending on the field and we end up with a very limited understanding of the relationship between individual memory, collective memory, and history. iMMORTALMEM proposes a novel theory, a socio functional interactionist theory, which explains: (a) why both communicative and cultural forms of collective memory are essential to serve all seven functions (i.e., for which purposes to serve people/societies use collective memories) of collective memory, (b) why functions of collective memory are important to understand how collective memories are formed, (c) why communicative form but not cultural form is used to create/shape collective identity, and (d) how communicative memory and cultural memory each contributes to different functions in transmitting collective memories. Six studies have been proposed. The first 3 studies will test proposed functions of communicative and cultural memories. Study 4 and Study 5 are experimental studies testing whether communicative memories but not cultural memories are influential in identity shaping function. Study 6 will particularly investigate how communicative and cultural memories contribute to different functions in transmitting collective memories of an on-going war event (i.e., Syrian Civil War). The project has also a strong potential leading new interdisciplinary questions such as could memory functions predict decay of certain collective memories and explain why some memories are no more discussed in the community and therefore are archived as cultural memories?"