A REVIEW ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE CONCEPT OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND ITS EVOLUTION TO THE PRESENT

Cengiz DESTAN

Abstract

If we begin with the history of the relevance and importance of working on memory, we will have to go back to antiquity. We can understand it from the statements of important figures of ancient philosophy such as Plato, who defines this interest and curiosity as "a midwife who gives birth to remembering", Aristotle, who expresses it as "recording every moment lived" and Cicero, who referred to the "instant reconstruction of remembered information" It is a fact that with the development of societies, new branches of science have emerged. In these developments, studies on memory, the branch of psychology that defines memory, the ability of an organism to store and then retrieve information and the branch of physiology, which defines it as a complex system in which we can associate, use and store information of different types, enters into the fields of interest of most researchers. The involvement of physiology and psychology has not prevented sociologists from thinking about memory. It has made them to additionally add innovations to concepts such as remembering and memory in social science. This study, in addition to addressing the history of memory, is examined by finding answers to the questions of how memory is examined socially, how the concept of social memory emerged, how this concept provided the basis for new thinkers, how it evolved and branched, how it evolved to the present day, how it resonates today, and how this concept is used and what is the value in individuals, institutions and states.

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