Transformative Events and Generational Memory: A Case Study Over Time in Lithuania
Transformative Events and Generational Memory: A Case Study Over Time in Lithuania
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DOI：
10.1111/socf.12023
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发表时间：
2013-06-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Schuman, Howard
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作者：
Corning, Amy;Gaidys, Vladas;Schuman, Howard
关于集体记忆在国家人口中的分布的研究通常是在相对稳定的社会中进行的，在社会中，大多数个人经历的事件类型有限。我们通过三项调查考察了立陶宛的集体记忆，立陶宛是一个经历了巨大变化的社会，自20世纪80年代末立陶宛反对苏联统治的抗议活动开始以来，这20年里进行了三次调查。我们根据休厄尔()对结构转换事件和其他重要但不那么重要的事件的区分，确定了两种类型的事件，并发现这两种类型的事件随着时间的推移表现出不同的变化模式：特别是，变革性事件可能通过同化吸收其他事件，并可能成为纪念的焦点。对变革性事件的回忆也显示出与出生队列的独特关系。我们的结果支持有必要考虑事件的性质，以便了解哪些事件被认为是重要的，被谁记住。
Research on the distribution of collective memories in national populations has often been conducted in relatively stable societies, where most individuals have experienced a limited range of event types. We examine collective memories in Lithuania, a society that has seen substantial change, using three surveys conducted during the two decades since Lithuanian protests against Soviet rule began in the late 1980s. We identify two types of events that individuals may recall, drawing on Sewell's () distinction between structure-transforming events and other events that are significant but less momentous, and we find that the two types of events exhibit different patterns of change over time: in particular, transformative events may absorb other events through assimiliation and are likely to be the focus of commemoration. Recall of transformative events also shows a distinctive relation to birth cohort. Our results support the need to take into account the nature of events in order to understand which events are remembered as important and by whom.