Sociology and Memory
Sociology and Memory
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社会学与记忆
DOI：
10.4057/jsr.56.727
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2005
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S. Urano
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S. Urano
对集体和/或公共记忆的社会学调查表明，记忆被视为构建集体身份的一种资源。虽然这一观点被普遍接受，但一些批评者认为，这种社会学分析本身可以被讽刺地用作集体身份建构的资源。如果这种批评是正确的，我们需要检查这种形式的分析记忆的基本假设。在这个问题的背景下，本文的目的是探讨社会学通过记忆的重新概念化而成为今天的样子的历史过程。特别是，威廉·托马斯的“社会理论”的构建及其与当时移民问题的关系将是本文的主要关注领域。这一讨论的中心点是记忆的概念从一个与新拉马克框架中的“遗传”概念一致的概念转变为另一个人类特有的、不能归因于生物特征的概念。此外，托马斯主要关注移民的记忆，考虑到他们融入美国的过程。此外，他和他的追随者们还提出了一种装置，可以作用于移民的记忆，以促进这种同化。从这个意义上说，早期的社会学不仅可以被视为一门记忆科学，而且可以被视为一种记忆技术。
Sociological investigations into collective and/or public memory have revealed that memory is treated as a resource for the construction of a collective identity. While this idea is generally accepted, some critics believe that this sociological analysis itself can be ironically utilized as a resource for collective identity construction. If this criticism is correct, we need to examine the basic assumptions of this form of analyzing memory.In the context of this problem, the purpose of this paper is to explore the historical process in which sociology has made itself what it is through the reconceptualization of memory. In particular, the construction of William I. Thomas' “social theory” and its relation to the problems of immigrants in those days will be the major focus areas of the paper.The central point of this discussion is the shift of the concept of memory from the one coincides with the concept “heredity” in Neo-Lamarckian framework to another that is distinctively human which cannot be attributable to biological traits. In addition, Thomas focuses mainly on the memory of the immigrants, considering their assimilation into the United States. Furthermore, he and his followers suggest apparatuses that operate on the memories of immigrants to promote this assimilation. In this sense, sociology in its early days can be regarded as not only as a science of memory but also as a technology of memory.